From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 16:36:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zeus.host4u.net (zeus.host4u.net [216.71.64.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7035737B402 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:36:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from eli (onlinecables.com [63.204.24.242]) by zeus.host4u.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA31807 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:23:41 -0600 From: "Robert Shea" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: RE: Pronunciations Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:33:53 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG %On 30-Nov-00 Roop Nanuwa wrote: ~snip~ % %I used to say the letters: f-s-c-k, but now I usually say "fisk". %(rhymes with %disk) % I learned from mostly very bitter sys admins, that always called fsck "f suck" and in fact, outside of this thread, I have never heard it called anything else. Considering how long it can take on larger drives... I'd have to agree that at times it is very appropriate. ~snip~ Robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message