* e2fsck bogus message @ 2001-10-31 12:43 vda 2001-10-31 17:44 ` Andreas Dilger 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: vda @ 2001-10-31 12:43 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-kernel e2fsck complains "Your /etc/fstab does not contain the fsck passno field..." when there are no entries in /etc/fstab. This message is bogus in this case. Why I don't have any entries? I refer to my root fs as /dev/root (thanks to devfs) and I have nothing else to mount yet. -- vda ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: e2fsck bogus message 2001-10-31 12:43 e2fsck bogus message vda @ 2001-10-31 17:44 ` Andreas Dilger 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Andreas Dilger @ 2001-10-31 17:44 UTC (permalink / raw) To: vda; +Cc: linux-kernel On Oct 31, 2001 12:43 +0000, vda wrote: > e2fsck complains "Your /etc/fstab does not contain the fsck > passno field..." when there are no entries in /etc/fstab. > This message is bogus in this case. > > Why I don't have any entries? > I refer to my root fs as /dev/root (thanks to devfs) > and I have nothing else to mount yet. Actually it is NOT a bogus complaint. If you don't have root in /etc/fstab, then it will never be checked by fsck. You still need something like: /dev/root / ext2 defaults 1 1 Also, this is NOT a kernel problem, so it shouldn't be reported to this list. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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