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* 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

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* 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/


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