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

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Jeremy Davis wrote:

> I have snapped off a couple usbs by bumping it with my knee
>
> doesn't a usb have a standard "read only" supposedly uncorruptible file
> system program?

you can always mount (ro). You don't know what your problem is yet. This may do 
nothing.

> I read that somewhere yesterday on the internet... I heard recently, the 
> internet is up to 6% total b.s.,

we do better than that here. It's always 50% or better, peaking to 90% on heavy 
load. However it dropped significantly when Jim Ray left the list.

> however, if what I read is true then it seems like the file that is being 
> edited would be the only thing that would corrupt. or is that not exactly 
> accurate?

any file that's open for write could be corrupted. Your application's file(s) 
aren't the only open files.

Joe

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