[TriLUG] How to prevent? "fsck died with exit status 4"

[MrB]

a good battery backup and a journaliing file system will go a long way to
making sure you're not getting these messages again I prefer ext3

Brent R Brian on Samsung GS III Android Phone
On Sep 28, 2014 7:07 PM, "Alan Porter" <porter at trilug.org> wrote:

> On 9/28/14, 6:51 PM, Jeremy Davis wrote:
>
>> Hopefully a sudden shut down would not corrupt the external drive.
>>
>
> Internal or external will not make any difference.
>
> If you shut down a non-journaled filesystem, you can
> introduce inconsistencies.  In fact, an external drive
> might be MORE susceptible to errors, I would think, just
> because it is more loosely coupled with the OS.
>
> I would see if you could run your AV system with a journal.
>
> Alan
>
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