On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Colin Wood wrote:

> That's not entirely true, actually.  There have been a number of cases
> where I've managed to make a mess of something while in multi-user mode,
> then shutdown to single-user mode and run fsck followed by a 'reboot -n'
> to preserve my fixes.  So it is still somewhat useful (although I admit I
> prefer to simply boot single-user in the first place, fsck, and then go
> multi-user :-)

If you didn't have the -n option, you still could remount your root
partition read-only and then run fsck.  Of course, that's one more step to
remember, and when you've hosed your disk, the next thing to fail is ones
memory.  :)

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