I was close... I have been too tired last few weeks to get much straight
lately ... having a newborn baby be 3 hours away make life a little
stressful.
On Mon, 11 May 1998, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:22:03AM -0600, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
> > fsck is essentually a defragger pumped up.
>
> Not really -- Unix filesystems do not need to be defragmented, so there
> isn't such an operation. fsck is really descendant of three earlier
> programs:
>
> icheck: file system consistency check. Compares the map of used blocks
> against the free list.
>
> ncheck: generates names from inode numbers.
>
> dcheck: file system directory consistency check. Compares the link count
> in each inode with the number of directory entries that reference it.
>
> Fsck automates the cross-checking that once had to be done by hand (i.e.
> by comparing the output of these three programs) and adds some pretty good
> heuristics to automagically repair problems that it finds. *Generally*
> speaking, it's a good idea to allow fsck to repair whatever it wants to.
> Running fsck in interactive mode should only be done by those who understand
> the low-level structure of Unix filesystems.
>
> ---Rsk
> Rich Kulawiec
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