Re: File-system Ext2 or Ext3??

[Steven Smith <sos22@cam.ac.uk>]

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> > > 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.
> 20 boots at about average a week per boot, I shouldn't
> be seeing a fsck for 5 months. :(
> Instead I'm getting them more like every third bootup.
Does fsck say why it's running? There will usually be messages saying
(from memory) ``not cleanly unmounted'' or ``has been mounted ... times''
just before fsck proper starts.

> > ``Linux native'' isn't terribly well defined, 
> YES! I'd noticed that before...how unhelpful is THAT,
> of course it's Linux Native, duh it's /, it HAS to be
> Linux Native to be mounted at startup!
It might be UMSDOS...

> > 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.
> Yes...in a nutshell that sounds like I thought it
> might be, oversimplication of fs.
> There's so many apps that need to be upgraded and
> rewritten....
True, but it's far easier to just ignore the filesystem type field.
It's only supposed to be a hint, anyway.

Steven Smith,
sos22@cam.ac.uk.

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