-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Damon Lynch wanted us to know:
>> "I don't care that you are using a journalized filesystem like ext3, I >> want you to do a full blown filesystem check as if you were ext2." >So why does it do this on bootup, on the root filesystem? What is the Mounting the root filesystem is the most important part of the boot process after the kernel has detected all the hardware. You want to give the sysadmin the most options to recover from a bolloxed <sp?> unclean shutdown. This is one. All it's really doing is checking for a file named /.autofsck. If it's there, it assumed that you didn't do a clean shutdown. Don't worry about it though because at this point, you've already mounted the fs using ext3 and the journal was replayed and any "errors" have already been backed out. That's a broad statement though. >I've always found it confusing and leaving me wondering what the heck is >the right thing to do...... My official opinion is this (you kinda asked for it :) If you know enough about it to think that you can let it go, the worst thing that will happen is it will drop you to a shell so you fix it manually. If you don't know anything about and decide to do the check, you've essentially done what the "expert" had to do manually in the emergency shell. So the newbie experience was just made better. - -- Blue skies... Todd http://www.mrball.net Public key: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc Development is like evolution and there is no turning back. Linux kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk 5 users, load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc iD8DBQE/Ncb5IBT1264ScBURAucnAJ0dMgE2fWtbVDu+QCxwq+uf2voqfgCg4mEz qOmxj+5IVOJiHXsrEkscmSM= =+aFB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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