on Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:13:08PM -0800, Jim Nutt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Matthew Sackman writes: > > Just to say that I've just switched most of my partitions over to reiserfs > > and am having exactely the same problems: the boot procedure halts on each > > boot-up because of the request for a file-system check on the root > partition. > > I converted both my partitions to reiserfs (mainly because my laptop > doesn't always wake up correctly and I hated waiting for fsck after > hard reboots). I did a couple of things to get rid of the checks. > First off, I removed the dump and pass parameters for the reiser > partitions in fstab, ie., the entries for the reiser partitions look > like this:
It should only be necessary to set the 'pass' flag to zero. Dump relates to filesystem backups and is unrelated to boottime fsck. man 5 fstab. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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