Package: fsck
Priority: required
Version: 1.42.4-e2compr-0.4.12-1
Source: e2fsprogs
Architecture: __ARCH__
Maintainer: Paul A. Whittaker <whitpa@users.sourceforge.net>
Section: System
Destination: root
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1)
Recommends: e2fsck, dosfsck
Description: Generic filesystem integrity checker
 A filesystem agnostic front-end for back-end filesystem specific
 integrity checkers.  It does nothing in and of itself.
 .
 If you intend to mount non-volatile (persistent/disk-based)
 filesystems read-write on a permanent basis, you need to set the
 sixth field of the relevant /etc/fstab entry to a non-zero value, and
 install an appropriate back-end support package for that filesystem
 type (eg. e2fsck for Ext2/3, dosfsck for VFAT).  If you do not, you
 run a high risk of progressive data corruption should the system go
 down uncleanly.
 .
 Temporary synchronous read-write mounts such as those performed by
 the storage-detect package present a much lower risk, and you do not
 necessarily need to run fsck in this scenario.