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I’ve always known fsck to mean “file system check” (I guess there’s officially a “consistency” in there), and while I can believe it was retconnned, what I stil
by mortenjorck 3y ago
I’ve always known fsck to mean “file system check” (I guess there’s officially a “consistency” in there), and while I can believe it was retconnned, what I still don’t understand from the post is what the original, cheekier version actually abbreviated or where the “u” came from.
(Though maybe, in the “GNU's Not Unix” vein, that is the joke?)
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y agoI assumed fsck was chosen on purpose because it's the tool you use when something was "f*cked" with your FS