On Wednesday 07 January 2004 13:16, Paul O'Rorke wrote: > 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...?
I have been skipping it for.... 6 months? I would guess. It's not given me problems to date Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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