Fear of fsck
"... they were afraid to run fsck for several months". That little sentence fragment was part of a support email I received this week. The email went on to say "After we ran it the system will no longer boot. (perhaps their fears were justified)."
I've heard similar things in the past. The fear is that fsck will "make things worse". The system is running now, it's working (or at least mostly working), so why tempt fate? The mental analogy here seems to be one of going in for surgery and dying from the anesthesia.
That's the wrong idea. Anything that fsck sees as needing fixing has the strong potential to make things worse, often much worse, if left unfixed. Yes, there may be unusual circumstances where I would want to not run fsck in order to examine or copy something before letting it do its repair. There might be times where I'd want to first run it with a "-n" (meaning report what needs fixing but do nothing). But in none of these cases would I then turn the system over to users.
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fsck fsck fsck! heh heh I gotta t-shirt that says that and people have to do a double take when they read it.