disk inconsistency - should 'fsck' always executed with -y ?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I've done it once or twice on PDP-11 Unix and at Cadmus, but that was a 
while ago. Too many bits to keep track of today. That's what a computer 
is for.

At my first programming job, we were told not to use the computer to 
debug your program. That was a very common management attitude 
when computer time was more expensive than programmers. But one 
thing I learned out of this was to "desk check" my code. 

 
On 2 Feb 2001, at 13:28, Glenn Burkhardt wrote:

> Probably, there are few if any people who really know how to fix a filesystem
> "manually", and tell 'fsck' not to fix problems.  This is probably just
> another hangover from the early Unix days.

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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