From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Smith Subject: Re: File-system Ext2 or Ext3?? Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 16:09:09 +0100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020512150909.GA596@cam.ac.uk> References: <20020511204622.23285.qmail@web12806.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020511204622.23285.qmail@web12806.mail.yahoo.com> List-Id: To: Staci Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > 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. --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE83oWVO4S8/gLNrjcRAvxIAKDEwhWsLJ598FknjA9AYt3txVmOkQCeLCl5 dKNS4CXIVBT5xo7OnT1dKvE= =VhLd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs