http://ubuntuforums.org – Is there any sense in running fsck -N first or should we just use -y right away and get it all over and done with fast? When we run fsck or e2fsck with the -y option and there are some serious file system problems, it silently unlinks any orphaned files to the lost+found. That's all fine and dandy when there's no big problems, normally no files need to be unlinked and fsck just runs and fixes t (Hardware)