ext3 filesystems and e2fsck

2005-07-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, Something I meant to ask about a long, long time ago, but forgot about. In the Ext3 instructions BLFS recommends to not set the the flag in /etc/fstab to run the consistency check performed by the checkfs script at boot time. Why is this? I have read, even on this or the -support list, t

Re: ext3 filesystems and e2fsck

2005-07-26 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 7/26/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Something I meant to ask about a long, long time ago, but forgot about. > In the Ext3 instructions BLFS recommends to not set the the flag in > /etc/fstab to run the consistency check performed by the checkfs > script at boot time

Re: ext3 filesystems and e2fsck

2005-07-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 07/26/05 17:10 CST: > Don't know?! I do run the consistency check on my systems. I thinks > its better to enable the checks in fstab. So +1 for the change. I do as well. And, noticing that Igor set up the ext3 filesystems on Anduin, where the checks are enabl

Re: ext3 filesystems and e2fsck

2005-07-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > And, noticing that Igor set up the ext3 filesystems > on Anduin, where the checks are enabled in /etc/fstab, I would think > that he does as well (I could be wrong in that Bruce may have set up > the filesystem structure, and if so, s/Igor/Bruce/ in the above). I'm not sur

Re: ext3 filesystems and e2fsck

2005-07-26 Thread Archaic
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:24:02PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > So, that said, let's don't make any changes for a few days and let > as many folks that care to comment, state their ideas. I use it and it has helped find problems. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your o

Re: ext3 filesystems and e2fsck

2005-07-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
Archaic wrote these words on 07/26/05 20:04 CST: > I use it and it has helped find problems. Everyone responding so far (and it has only been few hours) reports that they set the flag in /etc/fstab to do auto checks of the filesytems at boot time. I wonder why this issue has never been brought u

Re: ext3 filesystems and e2fsck

2005-07-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
Archaic wrote: I use it and it has helped find problems. Likewise! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page