Meaning of unfsckable | Babel Free

Definitions

Of a file system, unable to be repaired with fsck; highly corrupt.

Examples

“I was peacefully running a fairly stock⟳ black slab with 3.0 (no kernel servers, in particular) when my external 1.2GB drive⟳ flamed out sort⟳ of like⟳ Mark⟳ described, only more so: scores of media errors and bad sectors, crashes, kernel panics, etc. This built up gradually over about 5 days until my system was totally unbootable, unfsckable, and unusable.”

“I'm a fan of SCSI hard drives, and I like⟳ to set⟳ up ext3 with an external journal, ie.^([sic]) on a different physical drive⟳, which speeds things up a bit, though at the cost⟳ of making your data twice as vulnerable to hard drive⟳ failures (if the journal drive⟳ dies you're likely to end⟳ up with an unfsckable mess on the data drive⟳).”

“Linux file⟳ system hopelessly corrupted and unfsckable. Despaired of losing all the data accumulated since the last⟳ CD backup, but then remembered an old Knoppix CD in the drawer. It detected all the partitions on the hdd, plus my USB stick⟳, enabling a retrieve of my precious data.”

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