On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 d.ferguson@worc.ac.uk wrote:

> Just tried an fsck to check that the 9gb drive is ok and its taken 
> over 4 minutes so far ;o)  ( i dont want to risk not doing fsck's 
> during bootup yet 'cos i want to make sure i added it right...)

The fsck at boot up only runs if the disc/partition was not unmounted
properly, so as long as you don't crash/panic etc you'll be ok as the disk
will be marked clean.
 
Chris