Automatic fsck

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Alexander Jones <alex at weej.com> wrote:
> 2008/8/12 Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Paul S <paulatgm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've been bitten bad by e2fsck where it's borked my system such that
>>> I've had to reinstall.  Since I don't want to be forced into that again,
>>> I'm trying to disable it permanently and take my chances on losing a
>>> file here or there.
>>
>> I was under the impression that it's less likely to be "a file here or
>> there" and much more likely to be "corrupted partition" which would
>> lead to having to reinstall in many cases, but that fsck'ing was there
>> to fix problems before they boil all the way up to corrupting the
>> partition table.  I'm not sure what kind of problems a fsck could
>> cause, but I know what it can fix.  It fixed "system can't boot
>> because Vista shifted Ubuntu's inodes to all sorts of wrongness" a few
>> times.  I do not recommend a Linux/Vista dual boot.
>
> There is something /very/ wrong with Linux if a filesystem state can
> trigger something to break the MBR. I dare say, in fact, that there is
> no way a filesystem problem can corrupt the partition table.

OK, I'm a worry-wart.

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