fsck

[Chuck Tipton]

There is a program in linux called "yes" that spits out a bunch of
'y's'.  I believe you pipe other programs that require lots of 'y'
responses into it.  Never used it, though.  Sounds like this person ran
yes at the command line.



On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 17:12 +0000, tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:
> 
> 
> Something happened to our customer's hard drive and when it boot it
> said "run fsck manually"
> 
> so he ran fsck and it said something like
> 
>  
> 
>    restore filesystem 1#
> 
>  
> 
> I  told him to type y.  Now his screen output it just
> 
>  
> 
> y
> 
> y
> 
> y
> 
> y
> 
> y
> 
> y
> 
> y
> 
> y
> 
>  
> 
> No file listings or anything, but it keeps repeating "y".  Does this
> sound right or does it sound as though there were a problem?
> 
>  
> 
> Tony 
> 
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