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He didn’t. It’s a very slow command. He started it in parallel on several.

He only found that there was a problem when the ones started earlier finished and rebooted.

By then it was too late for 7 machines but he was able to stop it on the rest.

https://m.xkcd.com/242/ maybe. One hopes the reporter had backups (or was testing on disposable systems) before trying to reproduce a data-loss condition.

I'd say admin has had issues with users hard resetting the PC's and corrupting data, albeit slowly, and so runs chkdsk before it gets real bad.

XKCD has a mobile version?! You learn something new every day!

I'd do the same and for me, the reason would probably be trust.

"i, also, like to live dangerously"