On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:37:17PM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > > what is the no-mod option of fsck all about? i dont see it on the man page > nor is there an option for it... fsck -n /dev/hda4 which will flood the screen with errors saying `no' to all fix questions. no changes will be made to the filesystem at all. this way you can get an idea of how totally hosed the filesystem is. the opposite is fsck -y which will answer yes to all fix questions and `fix' everything that is wrong. (this can often be more painful then the disease) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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