Why are you trying to run fsck from a terminal window in the first place? And it would have warned you that you were doing something dangerous:
% sudo fsck [sudo] password for tytso: fsck 1.41.0 (10-Jul-2008) e2fsck 1.41.0 (10-Jul-2008) /dev/mapper/thunk-root is mounted. WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? And finally, why do you think this is a security problem? This looks like PEBKAC issue... -- fsck destroy the system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254390 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
