ben wrote: > > > so that e2fsck on an unmounted partition is okay? but to check a mounted > partition it should be efsck? or what? > > sorry, i haven't been following the thread. i'm not sure if it matters but > since using the 2.4.17 kernel on my machine , crashes nessecitating the check > haven't happened, at all. >
Umm no... First off, "fsck" just calls the appropriate filesystem-specific program, which happens to be "e2fsck" for most of us. I've never heard of efsck... possible typo? Second, You always want to fsck unmounted partitions only. If nothing else, trying to fsck a mounted partition produces the following message: "WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage." Mr. Ts'o (the guy who wrote a large portion of the ext2 stuff in Linux) knows much more about filesystems in general, and ext2 in particular, than I do, so I listen to that error message. Finally, It's not just crashes that will cause the system to run an fsck at boot time. There's a mount counter that will automatically fsck after so many reboots (or was it mounts?). I recall the number being set to 20. You can also force checking upon reboot by supplying the "-F" option to the shutdown command. --Rich _________________________________________________________ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _________________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]