Re: Just got a Pi1B. What can you actually do with it these days?

On 08 Jun 2025 10:18:05 +0100 (BST), Theo wrote:

... but the filesystem is broken.  Which is to be expected if
it wasn't properly unmounted, but for some reason the automatic
fsck-and-reboot mechanism in PiOS doesn't seem to work.

There isn’t actually a need to do an fsck normally. If you were using ext4
(or even ext3), that includes a journal. On reboot, you should see a
message “replaying journal”, after which the filesystem should be back to
a consistent state. This should be very quick, much quicker than a
filesystem integrity check.