On January 7, 2004 04:44 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 07 January 2004 12:23, Paul wrote: > > On 01/07/2004 09:37 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > >What filesystem are you using? I understand that the fsck is only > > >necessary for ext2 filesystems, as journalling takes care of the > > >things that fsck would be looking for. The advice I was given was > > >never to say 'yes' to it if you run a journalling fs. The journal > > >would be restored and everything would be OK. > > > > I am running ext3 on all my partitions. Did so ever since mdk 9.0 > > which was on my old PC. > > Journalling has helped me out of problems only a few times. The old > > machine had the habit of crashing (hardware problem, never solved) > > ever so often. Sometimes the 'recovering journal' would appear and > > things'd be fine, but more often than not the question to do an > > fsck would come up. And skipping that would have devastating > > results of mount points disrupted and more of that sort of fun. So > > do not rely on what you hear on one side. I did not skip fsck's. > > Perhaps on other journalling systems things are different or > > better. I don't know that. > > Since the advice I was given came from people whose expertise I > respect, I prefer to listen to them. I have followed their advice > ever since, and it has never caused me any problems. > > Anne
I certainly seem to be having more success skipping fsck than by trying to go through with it as it always hangs now if I try it. Perhaps I will see negative effects down the road...? -- Paul O'Rorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] (school) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (legacy/home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for MSN messenger) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for Yahoo messenger)
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