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Old 01-01-2011, 08:15 AM   #16
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Thank you for posting the answer.

I suspect that the reason the default behavior to set to "no" is to avoid an infinite loop when the disk drive is malfunctioning. Running fsck multiple times on a broken drive can reduce the chances of recovering data.

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