fsck Reports When it Needs to be Rerun

Better reporting by fsck about when it needs to be rerun should alleviate the time and necessity of running it multiple times, which can be particularly time consuming on large file systems.

The following new messages prompt you to rerun the fsck utility at the end of an error scenario:

***** PLEASE RERUN FSCK *****

Or:

Please rerun fsck(1M) to correct this.

These new prompts resolve the previous difficulty in determining whether fsck should be rerun or not.

Unless you are prompted to rerun fsck as in the above messages, there is no need to run fsck, even after you see the following message:

***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****

However, it doesn't harm the file system to rerun fsck after this message. This message is just informational about fsck's corrective actions.