On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, eric k. wolven wrote: > I've noticed the same thing. When booting the system hangs at /dev/hda5 and > /dev/hda7 on my system during e2fsck check. If I C-c, the system continues > booting normally. > > When doing shutdown, I get a message that "/dev/hda7" is "busy" and is being > mounted "read-only". So far as I've been able to tell, nothing is amiss. I > updated Monday, 10/25. > > Maybe the current update will correct it. I'm downloading as I speak...
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=48312 parallel checking of filesystems was broken in the first release of e2fsprogs 1.16. this one bit me too ;-). latest release fixes it. -t