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 17:54:21 +0100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020512165421.GA1066@cam.ac.uk> References: <20020512150909.GA596@cam.ac.uk> <20020512152519.38384.qmail@web12808.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jI8keyz6grp/JLjh" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020512152519.38384.qmail@web12808.mail.yahoo.com> List-Id: To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > 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,=20 > 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. --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh 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 iD8DBQE83p49O4S8/gLNrjcRAnp1AKCR4fhXr/zw9g4uza13QPNW6vNxWQCdEXEo bV4fKQ/IlNPVD7QdWDe4Jq0= =Majd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh-- - 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