> /forcefsck and /fastboot have nothing to do with that > > they are not even administered by the fs > > I wasn't trying to imply the filesystem is putting the files there, nor reading them. Rather, those two files show that "since there is no way to mark known brokeness in a ext file system, we wrap it up in shell scripts that create and look for those files in order to 'know' if the filesystems are broken or not and if fsck is in order"
-- To our sweethearts and wives. May they never meet. -- 19th century toast
