When machine is booting up, it does not know if reboot is due to power
failure or due to sw crash. [Actually, big machines tend to have UPSs
so power failures are not too common.] In case of sw crash you have to
do fsck. But machine can not know if it crashed due to sw crash or due
to power fail -- so I expect it to do full fsck anyway.
I'm told that when you force-fsck NT they find some FS corruption over
extended periods of time, so that "fsck-after-crash" might give sense
after all.
What kind of SW crash ?
Unless the FS itself code failed, the filesystem on disk is still in valid
state. With a good FS that is.
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