fsck and system crashes

[david]

Greetings,

I've noticed on other distro's, particularly Mandrake, that if the
system locks solid or crashes that on the next start there is a "your
system was uncleanly shutdown, please press Y to force a check".
This doesn't happen with Ubuntu. Is there a reason for this? Or do I
need to go learn fsck?

many thanks

(I removed Mandrake from my pc t'other night. I think I may have found
the distro I was looking for in Ubuntu.)

David