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unfsckable

unfsckable adjective: of a file system, unable to be repaired with fsck; highly corrupt.

Adjective

unfsckable (comparative more unfsckable, superlative most unfsckable)

  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...1994 January 17, Deborah Howland, “3.2 crashes”, in comp.sys.next.bugs (Usenet)
    • I'm a fan of SCSI hard drives, and I like to set up ext3 with an external journal, ie.^([sic]) on a different physical drive, which speeds things up a bit, though at the cost of making your data twice as vulnerable to hard drive failures (if the journal drive dies you're likely to end up with an...2003 October 8, Pigeon, “How to kill X?”, in linux.debian.user (Usenet)

Examples of unfsckable in a sentence

  • This built up gradually over about 5 days until my system was totally unbootable, unfsckable, and unusable.1994 January 17, Deborah Howland, “3.2 crashes”, in comp.sys.next.bugs (Usenet):
  • Linux file system hopelessly corrupted and unfsckable.2006 April 26, BrianM, “Knoppix is Kneat”, in nz.comp (Usenet):

Forms of unfsckable

comparativemore unfsckable
superlativemost unfsckable

Origin of unfsckable

From un- + fsck + -able.

Questions about unfsckable

What does unfsckable mean?
Unfsckable means of a file system, unable to be repaired with fsck; highly corrupt.
How do you use unfsckable in a sentence?
This built up gradually over about 5 days until my system was totally unbootable, unfsckable, and unusable.
What part of speech is unfsckable?
Unfsckable is an adjective.

Words near unfsckable in the dictionary

  1. unfrustrably
  2. unfrustratable
  3. unfrustrated
  4. unfry
  5. unfrying
  6. unfsckable
  7. unfuck
  8. unfuckability
  9. unfuckable
  10. unfuckableness
  11. unfuckables

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