Re: fsck of large volume with small memory



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On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:17+0400, sam wrote:

fsck: illegal option -- N

Try: fsck -n

man fsck should give you some hints on what Don was talking about.

I.e.:

-n Causes fsck to assume no as the answer to all operator questions,
except "CONTINUE?".

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