[TriLUG] hard drive error; it wants the FSCK

[Jeff Bollinger]

Paul Jones wrote:
> http://developer.syndetic.org/query_jargon.pl
> 
> fscking:
> /fus'-king/ or /eff'-seek-ing/ adj. [Usenet; common] Fucking, in the 
> expletive sense (it refers to the Unix filesystem-repair command fsck(8), 
> of which it can be said that if you have to use it at all you are having a 
> bad day). Originated on scary devil monastery and the bofh.net newsgroups, 
> but became much more widespread following the passage of CDA. Also 
> occasionally seen in the variant "What the fsck?"
> 
>  scary\ devil\ monastery:
> n. Anagram frequently used to refer to the newsgroup 
> alt.sysadmin.recovery, which is populated with characters that rather 
> justify the reference.
> 
> 
> On 29 Aug 2003, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> 
> +On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 10:49, Douglas Kojetin wrote:
> +
> +> 
> +> anyone know who gave FSCK the name and why?  .... :)  maybe it's time 
> +> to break down and get this:  
> +> http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/sysadmin/5d71/
> +
> +Well, it stands for FileSystem ChecK, which is actually a pretty sane
> +name, compared to some things in the Unix world.  Whether all the jokes
> +were anticipated when it was named that, I can't presume to know.  :-)
> +
> +--Jeremy


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