was new install 8.04 fail on boot

[Eberhard Roloff]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> nepal google wrote:
> 
>> On Friday 21 Nov 2008, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
>>> First of all, if you do not like manpages fsck --help is
>>> your friend. The very first option that you get (-p) is
>>> used for "automatic repair, no questions"
>> I did use fsck --help that is how I found the other options.
>>
>> The automatic file checking when failed said IIUC not to use
>> the -p option for the manual check, but regardless it is
>> done now. 
> 
> I believe you're right - though it's a while since I've seen the 
> message.   The problem is -p _doesn't_ fix all errors, and it should have 
> been done already, so you still need to run "fsck" without -p (and -a 
> isn't doing anything - it's a synonym for -p).

Now that you mention it, I think I remember -y wihich works to say yes 
to all questions, instead of enter;enter;enter;enter
> 
>> The crunch was I am not prepared to sit at a
>> machine typing enter enter enter for hours.
> 
> Your loss if the filesystem is seriously damaged.
indeed. It's about valueing time spent against data (most likely) 
salvaged. ;-)

Eberhard