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From: Edgar Alwers <edgaralwers@gmx.de>
To: Staci <spiritlover666@yahoo.com>, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File-system Ext2 or Ext3??
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 14:44:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <02051214440201.00732@edgar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020511204622.23285.qmail@web12806.mail.yahoo.com>

On Saturday 11 May 2002 22:46, Staci wrote:
> I still get forced fscks at startup, and they still find
> lots of problems I thought would be eliminated with
> ext3.

You need to be more precise. What lots of problems is fsck finding ? Please 
include the exact wording.
And did you have the problems before changing the FS ? ( " I thought would be 
eliminated with ext3" )
If you have had an unclean shutdown ( power out for instance ), FS will get 
checked on next bootup. You may get messages like "unexpected inconsistency; 
run fsck manually "
You also may need the newest version of e2fsprogs ( > 1.27 )
Have you checked that your kernel supports ext3 ( normally > 2.4.18, but not 
always the stock kernels ). 

> So I look at cfdisk for /dev/hdb, and it says those
> partitions are ext2. 

It happens in my system also, which is clean ext3. Perhaps cfdisk is not in 
the last shape !

> Is my cfdisk too old?  Did I do
> something wrong?  Both my mtab and fstab have them
> labeled (correctly?) as ext3.

Include also /etc/fstab

Regards,
Edgar

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-12 12:44 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 [this message]
2002-05-12 15:09 ` Steven Smith
2002-05-12 15:10   ` Dan Milne
2002-05-12 15:25   ` Staci
2002-05-12 16:54     ` Steven Smith

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