fsck is always forced on next boot. It checks to see if the filesystem was
cleanly unmounted. If the filesystem was not cleanly unmounted (ie due to a
crash, power failure, etc...) it forces an automatic check of the entire
root partition looking for errors. If the filesystem was cleanly unmounted,
it just mounts the partition normally.
Hope this helps....
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Timothy P. Hughes
Associate Technical Analyst
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doin' the bull dance, feelin' the flow...
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> Sent: Monday, October 26, 1998 9:52 AM
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> Subject: Re: Safe to turn off PC?
>
>
> OK - along these lines, here is a question for you all...
>
> My system does the same thing that most people have been
> saying: "System
> halted."
>
> However, right on the line after that, it ALWAYS says, "On
> the next boot,
> fsck will be forced." Or something to that effect - I'm
> writing this from
> a different computer than the one I normally use, and I
> haven't been able
> to turn on my Linux box in more than a few days now so I can't double
> check the exact wording...but its something like that.
>
> I umount the cdrom, etc... before I shutdown and what have you, but it
> always does that. Is that bad? And, what does it mean???
>
> -Evan-
>
