Hello, I'm a little confused by the behavior of the automatic filesystem check on unclean shutdown behavior in redhat 8, hopefully someone could clarify things for me. I'm running an etx3 filesystem... whenever the system is shutdown uncleanly, on bootup I see the prompt to do a filesystem check... first off, this alone confused me, since I thought that ext3 was journaled, making this kind of thing unnecessary. No big deal though - I let it run, it never finds any problems, and everything is OK. However, when my system hard locks (forcing me to hit the reset button), then the filesystem check finds a problem, prompts me for root password for maintenence, then drops me to a shell prompt. Unsure what I'm supposed to do from there, what I've been doing is running e2fsck, which immediately returns saying "clean". Rebooting, I am again prompted for a filesystem check, although this time it passes with no errors and boots. I'm just confused as to what exactly is going on in these various! steps, and are they all necessary? It seems like there's some redundancy in that cycle. Also, am I doing the right thing by just running e2fsck once it drops me to the maintence prompt? Or is there something else I should be doing?
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