Unfsckable
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Of a file system, unable to be repaired with fsck; highly corrupt.
"I was peacefully running a fairly stock black slab with 3.0 (no kernel servers, in particular) when my external 1.2GB drive flamed out sort of like Mark described, only more so: scores of media errors and bad sectors, crashes, kernel panics, etc. This built up gradually over about 5 days until my system was totally unbootable, unfsckable, and unusable."
Example
More examples"I was peacefully running a fairly stock black slab with 3.0 (no kernel servers, in particular) when my external 1.2GB drive flamed out sort of like Mark described, only more so: scores of media errors and bad sectors, crashes, kernel panics, etc. This built up gradually over about 5 days until my system was totally unbootable, unfsckable, and unusable."
Etymology
From un- + fsck + -able.
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