From: Steven Smith <sos22@cam.ac.uk>
To: Staci <spiritlover666@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File-system Ext2 or Ext3??
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 16:09:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020512150909.GA596@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020511204622.23285.qmail@web12806.mail.yahoo.com>
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> I set up journals on my ext2 FSes (there's two, / and
> /home) with tune2fs -j, to make them ext3. But I
> still get forced fscks at startup,
How many? ext3 should be fscked every 20 or so times it gets mounted,
to find any errors which crept in from somewhere.
If it's more than that, check you've got a recent fsck. ext3 support
was added in (I think) 1.19.
> So I look at cfdisk for /dev/hdb, and it says those
> partitions are ext2. Is my cfdisk too old? Did I do
> something wrong?
This is a maybe-bug in fdisk. Partition table entries have a numerical
type id, which, for Linux native partitions, is 83 hex. Unfortunately,
``Linux native'' isn't terribly well defined, with ext, ext2, ext3,
reiser, and several other having a claim. fdisk assumes ext2 is the One
True Linux Filesystem, so gives the wrong answer if something else is used.
It should probably just say Linux.
Steven Smith,
sos22@cam.ac.uk.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-12 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-11 20:46 File-system Ext2 or Ext3?? Staci
2002-05-12 12:44 ` Edgar Alwers
2002-05-12 15:09 ` Steven Smith [this message]
2002-05-12 15:10 ` Dan Milne
2002-05-12 15:25 ` Staci
2002-05-12 16:54 ` Steven Smith
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