Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 08:06:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 08:06:12 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([209.10.41.242]:13029 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 08:05:55 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 13:04:13 +0000 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" To: Neal Gieselman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ext3 fsck question Message-ID: <20010301130413.B7647@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Neal.Gieselman@Visionics.com on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:03:21PM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:03:21PM -0600, Neal Gieselman wrote: > > I applied the libs and other utilites from e2fsprogs by hand. > I ran fsck.ext3 on my secondary partition and it ran fine. The boot fsck > on / was complaining about something but I could not catch it. > I then went single user and ran fsck.ext3 on / while mounted. e2fsck should complain loudly and ask for confirmation if you do that. Goin ahead with the fsck is a bad move on a mounted, rw filesystem! > Excuse the stupid question, but with ext3, do I really require the > fsck.ext3? fsck.ext3 is just a link to e2fsck. Make sure you're running recent e2fsprogs, though (either the latest snapshot from downloads.sourceforge.net or a build from ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/). Cheers, Stephen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/