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From: root@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Not doing fsck on reboot
Date: 4 Jan 1996 03:35:43 GMT
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Bruce Momjian (root@candle.pha.pa.us) wrote:
: If my unix machine was brought down cleanly, I don't understand why an
: fsck is performed upon reboot.

I see now that there is an option to shutdown that allows for fastboots.

I guess I am now wondering why I would not always want to use that flag.

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