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Re: [Q] fsck at every boot?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borg)
Tue Nov 12 01:16:36 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 22:14:48 -0800
From: Borg <vladimip@iceonline.com>
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Peter Moulder wrote:
>
> Is it necessary that fsck is run every time the machine boots
> into Linux, even after all clean shutdowns? I haven't had a
> 'dirty one' yet.
>
> I'm sorry, I didn't properly read your question. (Must be my
> bedtime.)
>
> The answer is `no'.
Actually, IMHO the answer is yes. "fsck" not only checks
FS for corrupted data but also defragments it. Even
if you had a clean shutdown, used disk space is not
always contiguous.
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