fsck question

[twofoolish2b]

Hello everyone, I have a question about fsck. Is there a way to get around fsck when you have to reboot and it comes back and says the disk was not cleanly umounted? If so how do you do it?

[Strike]

No, there's not. And with good reason - without running it, the integrity of the data is uncertain. I think the only reason you are allowed to skip MS Scandisk when you don't do a clean shutdown is that they realize that their Scandisk program sucks as well, and didn't want it to lock up. Plus, Windows locks hard a lot more often, and people often don't get a whole lot of HD use between boots.

[jbstew32]

strike is right on that one... fsck is VERY important, especially after hard crashes or power surges/outages. It even does it after a certain number of times mounting a drive...

It's a very good tool and should not be interrupted (*cough cough* ctrl-c *cough*)
Stopping just forces you to have to run it again most of the time :)