[TriLUG] hard drive error; it wants the FSCK

[Paul Jones]

http://developer.syndetic.org/query_jargon.pl

fscking:
/fus'-king/ or /eff'-seek-ing/ adj. [Usenet; common] Fucking, in the 
expletive sense (it refers to the Unix filesystem-repair command fsck(8), 
of which it can be said that if you have to use it at all you are having a 
bad day). Originated on scary devil monastery and the bofh.net newsgroups, 
but became much more widespread following the passage of CDA. Also 
occasionally seen in the variant "What the fsck?"

 scary\ devil\ monastery:
n. Anagram frequently used to refer to the newsgroup 
alt.sysadmin.recovery, which is populated with characters that rather 
justify the reference.


On 29 Aug 2003, Jeremy Portzer wrote:

+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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