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

[Jerry Feldman]

The fsck at boot time will fix some things, like file size counts, etc. 
On 2 Feb 2001, at 11:48, Derek Martin wrote:

> Ordinarily at boot time, the system will run fsck -A to check all
> filesystems in parallel.  This speeds up the process a great deal (if you
> have multiple physical disk drives, otherwise it doesn't matter), and
> ordinarily is all that is necessary, so is generally desireable to run it
> this way.  But running with the -A option will not allow you make changes
> to the filesystem... if an inconsistency is found, you must run fsck
> manually.

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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