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Re: Accidently ran fsck on a mounted HDD and made problems! What

The Natural Philosopher

2007-08-28, 7:13 am

jellybean stonerfish wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:21:26 -0500, Ant wrote:
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> Perhaps stopping a disk fixing process is bad-der.
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yes, that has been my experience.

You may bugger up files in use, but not static ones.

stopping halfway may bugger up the complete directory.

> stonerfish