[Buildroot] EXT2-fs error

[Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>]

>>>>> "Johnny" == Johnny Beardsmore <jny0@hotmail.com> writes:

 Johnny> My understanding of running e2fsck is that it should only be
 Johnny> done on an unmounted file system (or setting to read-only, but
 Johnny> I've never actually done this).  I've only ever run it on hda
 Johnny> (usually a hard disk or flash drive) or sda (usually a usb
 Johnny> stick) after a umount.  For me to e2fsck on the build machine
 Johnny> means that I'm applying it to files on a mounted file system,
 Johnny> not a complete unmounted drive.  This is where I'm getting
 Johnny> confused.

Here it works:

tar jxf buildroot-2010.08.tar.bz2
cd buildroot-2010.08
make menuconfig (don't change anything, exit and save)
make
/sbin/e2fsck -f output/images/rootfs.ext2
e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
Filesystem did not have a UUID; generating one.

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information

output/images/rootfs.ext2: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
output/images/rootfs.ext2: 504/896 files (0.4% non-contiguous), 1268/3568 blocks

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard