Thank you, The bootup process forces the system to run fsck every 34 boots. Historically it gives me the message to that effect and they gives a progress bar with a spinner and a percent completed. I became concerned because it acted differently today in that it gave out about a half dozen messages that looked like they might be an error found. I was "indisposed" and was not able to take note of the exact message. It also had error numbers and what looked like a 128 bit hex number. Each time it wrote a message the progress bar was recreated under the message and continued on from there. Someday I hope to figure out how to get the check to run on my schedule so I can plan it for times I am not in a hurry. Harold On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 08:41 -0700, Jon M. Hanson wrote: > Harold wrote: > > Found it, thank you very much > > It does not show any errors, only a slight defragmentation. > > I have little idea what it was telling me on bootup. but I will try to > > to worry. > > > > Harold > > > > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 07:47 -0700, Luis Villarreal wrote: > > > > > Check your /var/log/ > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Harold <hmichels01@earthlink.net> > > > wrote: > > > While booting my laptop ran a forced fsck > > > > > > It returned a half a screen of what looks like error messages > > > I have not seen these messages on other checks. > > > > > > Where does fsck put its error logs? > > > > > > I would like to figure out if I have a problem or not. > > > > > > Harold > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > > > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > The forced check isn't necessarily because it thought the data was > bad. Most filesystems will force a check after so many mounts or after > so many days of the last one being done. > > -- > Jon M. Hanson (N7ZVJ) > Homepage: http://the-hansons-az.net > Weblog: http://the-hansons-az.net/wordpress > Jabber IM: jon@the-hansons-az.net > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss