[TriLUG] hard drive error; it wants the FSCK

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Fri Aug 29 11:02:51 EDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 10:49, Douglas Kojetin wrote:

> 
> anyone know who gave FSCK the name and why?  .... :)  maybe it's time 
> to break down and get this:  
> http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/sysadmin/5d71/

Well, it stands for FileSystem ChecK, which is actually a pretty sane
name, compared to some things in the Unix world.  Whether all the jokes
were anticipated when it was named that, I can't presume to know.  :-)

--Jeremy

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