why fsck

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Mon, March 1, 2010 16:17, Knapp wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Amedee Van Gasse (ub)
> <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
>> On Mon, March 1, 2010 11:47, Knapp wrote:
>>
>>> That man page really does not answer my questions but it is a good
>>> step in the right direction.
>>
>> Oh ok, I'm sorry.
>> Could you rephrase your question? I'm afraid that I didn't understand
>> you
>> very well. Must be a manguage issue, i'm not a native speaker.
>>
>
> No problem, I guess what I really want to know is why that check is
> needed and what it is checking. I can understand needing it, in the
> case of a power failure or software crash but why every 30 boots? It
> is disk maintenance as is the MS defrag in and this way I see it all
> being the same thing in the end from the users perspective.

I searched for "fsck why" and found this:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2007-September/009300.html

Let me know if this answers your questions or if there is anything else
that needs to be clarified.