A Half-Baked Explanation:
I'm currently stuck, thanks to the opinion of an evil gifted program
counselor at Southwest Miami High
School, on a particularly evil homebound school program. I have to take
classes over the phone, and, needless to say, as it's impossible to just get
up and give my homework and stuff to the teachers, stuff tends to get lost
or mishandled sometimes. Today, this was said by my economics teacher,
and I just found it too amusing and yet terrifying to pass up putting it in
a comic. This was actually my response, too, except I used another
non-Linux-commandish word in place of fsck. Thank goodness for the MUTE
button. Whee. Just in case you're curious, fsck stands for File System
Consistency Check, and is sort of the Unix-like operating system equivalent
of scandisk (for those Windows victims out there). The primary difference,
aside from operating system, is that fsck actually fixes stuff; whereas
scandisk just kanoodles things. The (8) indicates that its manual page is in section 8.