fsck and system crashes

[Erik Bågfors]

It's called journaling filesystem.  Mandrake should also use one by
default.  Shouldn't be any reason to run fsck unless something REALLY
bad has happened.

/Erik


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:54:11 +0100, david <nux at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
> 
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