Running fsck before mounting removable media

[kitts]

On Saturday 28 Apr 2007 10:58:15 pm Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > No, it isn't a good idea to run a fsck check on every plugin time.
>
> But it is a good idea to check if filesystem was unmounted cleanly and warn
> user if it is dirty. Then user may decide to check or not to check. I am
> not sure if Linux has some standrd wy to do it, but other Unices do
> have "fsck -p" for that.

-p for automatic repair, no questions asked? Yes that's available on Linux 
too.
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kitts