On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:02 AM, schmitz
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> I
>> need to instruct my parents to boot into rescue system and fsck the
>> filesystem manually or restore the backup. But apart from that it could be
>> used as well.
>>
>
> Yuck - that sounds bad. But sometimes you can end up with very little actual
> damage after a session of keeping the 'y' key pressed for as long as it
> takes to complete a manual fsck. Might be worth a try.

>From e2fsck(8):

       -y     Assume  an  answer of `yes' to all questions; allows
e2fsck to be used non-interac-
              tively.  This option may not be specified at the same
time as the -n or -p options.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [email protected]

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds


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