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02-16-2006, 11:19 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2006
Posts: 19
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why is the default to fsck's "ignore error" "yes"?
Hello. Can someone explain to me please why is it that when you run fsck and an "Error reading block..." occurs, you are prompted to ignore the error?
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02-17-2006, 04:59 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: Hilliard, Ohio, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Kubuntu
Posts: 1,851
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As opposed to _____???
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02-20-2006, 01:30 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2006
Posts: 19
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as opposed to "no".
Why would you want to ignore the error, would you not be better off trying to fix it?
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02-20-2006, 02:02 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: In the DC 'burbs
Distribution: Arch, Scientific Linux, Debian, Ubuntu
Posts: 4,290
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Some errors, such as a bad disk block, can't be recovered. If they could, fsck probably would've done it already. If you tell it to ignore the error it should try to reconstruct whatever data it can from the problem area.
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