On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 00:03 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
If their system does not respond to attempts to reboot from the menu (or in some cases even if it would because they don't even bother trying), users will just hit the reset button or pull the plug, and in that case the file system has no time to clean up anything.
Which still shouldn't cause a need for an interactive fsck session. That's why the journal is there.