From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Neal Gieselman <Neal.Gieselman@Visionics.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3 fsck question
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 13:04:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010301130413.B7647@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D0FA767FA2D5D31194990090279877DA57328F@dbimail.digitalbiometrics.com>
In-Reply-To: <D0FA767FA2D5D31194990090279877DA57328F@dbimail.digitalbiometrics.com>; from Neal.Gieselman@Visionics.com on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:03:21PM -0600
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:03:21PM -0600, Neal Gieselman wrote:
>
> I applied the libs and other utilites from e2fsprogs by hand.
> I ran fsck.ext3 on my secondary partition and it ran fine. The boot fsck
> on / was complaining about something but I could not catch it.
> I then went single user and ran fsck.ext3 on / while mounted.
e2fsck should complain loudly and ask for confirmation if you do that.
Goin ahead with the fsck is a bad move on a mounted, rw filesystem!
> Excuse the stupid question, but with ext3, do I really require the
> fsck.ext3?
fsck.ext3 is just a link to e2fsck. Make sure you're running recent
e2fsprogs, though (either the latest snapshot from
downloads.sourceforge.net or a build from
ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/).
Cheers,
Stephen
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-01 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-01 2:03 ext3 fsck question Neal Gieselman
2001-03-01 12:59 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-03-01 13:04 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
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