On 02-Jan-01 Mandar Mitra wrote:
> I have a second hard-drive as primary slave. I had made the
> following entry in the /etc/fstab file.
> 
> /dev/hdb2  /b    ext2  defaults    1 2
> 
> fsck often complains about /dev/hdb2 during booting ("not
> unmounted cleanly", or "file system has errors"). I've seen 
> some folks turn off checking for the second drive, like the 
> following:
> 
> /dev/hdb5 /temp ext2 rw 0 0
> 
> Is this a safe alternative? 

if you have errors on the drive, mounting the drive and writing to it
can destroy no only what you add, but also whatever you already have there.
I would concentrate on the cause of the errors 1st.

> Does any one have any suggestions about why I'm getting the
> error messages in the first place?

any errors on the other devices ? (i.e. the primary drive partitions?)

-Greg


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Date: 02-Jan-01
Time: 16:28:04

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