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

[Glenn Burkhardt]

On my Mandrake system, the rc.sysinit script has these lines:

if [ -f /fsckoptions ]; then
	fsckoptions=`cat /fsckoptions`
    else
	fsckoptions=
fi

	initlog -c "fsck -T -a $fsckoptions /"
	rc=$?
	
	if [ "$rc" = "0" ]; then
		success "$STRING"
		echo
	elif [ "$rc" = "1" ]; then
	        passed "$STRING"
		echo
        fi
	
        # A return of 2 or higher means there were serious problems.
	if [ $rc -gt 1 ]; then
		failure "$STRING"
		echo
		echo
		echo "*** An error occurred during the file system check."
		echo "*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot"
		echo "*** when you leave the shell."

		PS1="(Repair filesystem) \#"; export PS1
		sulogin

		echo "Unmounting file systems"
		umount -a
		mount -n -o remount,ro /
		echo "Automatic reboot in progress."
		reboot -f
	elif [ "$rc" = "1" ]; then
		_RUN_QUOTACHECK=1
	fi

So, it looks like I can experiment with out changing the boot scripts!

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