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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e2fsck bogus message
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:44:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011031104431.B16554@lynx.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01103112432903.00794@nemo>
In-Reply-To: <01103112432903.00794@nemo>; from vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:43:29PM +0000

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/


      reply	other threads:[~2001-10-31 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-31 12:43 e2fsck bogus message vda
2001-10-31 17:44 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]

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