The story of the name of the "fsck" command

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• felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  fsck, or the File System ChecK program

  Saved you a click

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I first heard about this command from my dad when I told him I was installing Linux the first time and he told a joke that I don’t remember the whole setup or anything but the punchline was that if you have to use FSCK, you’re FUCKED.

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  • aard@kyu.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Back in 2001 we got ext3, adding journaling to the most widely used filesystem on Linux - which can just roll back transaction on next mount, while previously you’d have to run fsck to get your filesystem back to a consistent state.

    A non-journaling filesystem was easier to get into a state where things were broken in interesting ways, as a unclean unmount had a higher chance of impacting critical data.

    In the early days of journaling filesystems fsck was also quite lacking - so when things got bad enough that you did need fsck there was a decent chance you’d end up in trouble.

    Nowadays both robustness of the file systems as well as quality of fsck have greatly improved.

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• unreachable@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Webpage not available The webpage at layer8.space/…/111593487390984218 could not be loaded because:

  net::ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR

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  • Synthead@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, this redirect is very uncool. Go to hachyderm.io/@robpike/111593487329402102 instead.

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• LWD@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Referring to the thorium web browser. It’s super dumb.

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    • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • baduhai@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have no problems with developers being furries, I just don’t understand why he’d put pictures of circumcision in his project.

    For the record, I’m not boycotting his stuff, I never used it in the first place. I’m just flabbergasted by the situation. Why include the furry and circumcision pictures? Just why?

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• cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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