From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Milne Subject: Re: File-system Ext2 or Ext3?? Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 18:10:30 +0300 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3CDE85E6.6040009@dynexco.com> References: <20020511204622.23285.qmail@web12806.mail.yahoo.com> <20020512150909.GA596@cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Staci Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Did you change the entries in /etc/fstab from ext2 to ext3 ? Steven Smith wrote: >>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. > > - 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