From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Aleksander Kujbida" Subject: RE: Bad Blocks Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 07:54:12 +0000 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Thanks for the clarification, Glynn. Aleksander >From: Glynn Clements >To: "Aleksander Kujbida" >CC: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org >Subject: RE: Bad Blocks >Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 05:54:28 +0100 > > >Aleksander Kujbida wrote: > > > > > Continuing on the same subject, How does the linux box decide that = >it > > > > requires a manual fsck, during bootup > > > > > > If fsck returns an error code other than 0 (no errors) or 1 (some > > > errors, but they were all fixed), the boot sequence will normally be > > > interrupted before the root filesystem is mounted read-write. > > > > Also, if a specified period of time has elapsed since the last fsck (or= =20 >is > > it last boot?), it will fsck. Can't remember where the time period is=20 >set. > >The boot sequence *always* runs fsck; but fsck itself won't actually >perform the check if the filesystem was cleanly unmounted and neither >the maximum mount count nor the check interval have been reached. > >-- >Glynn Clements _________________________________________________________________ Join the world=92s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail.=20 http://www.hotmail.com