Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 12:45:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 12:45:12 -0500 Received: from [63.231.122.81] ([63.231.122.81]:57953 "EHLO lynx.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 12:44:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:44:31 -0700 From: Andreas Dilger To: vda Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: e2fsck bogus message Message-ID: <20011031104431.B16554@lynx.no> Mail-Followup-To: vda , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <01103112432903.00794@nemo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <01103112432903.00794@nemo>; from vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:43:29PM +0000 X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Oct 31, 2001 12:43 +0000, vda wrote: > e2fsck complains "Your /etc/fstab does not contain the fsck > passno field..." when there are no entries in /etc/fstab. > This message is bogus in this case. > > Why I don't have any entries? > I refer to my root fs as /dev/root (thanks to devfs) > and I have nothing else to mount yet. Actually it is NOT a bogus complaint. If you don't have root in /etc/fstab, then it will never be checked by fsck. You still need something like: /dev/root / ext2 defaults 1 1 Also, this is NOT a kernel problem, so it shouldn't be reported to this list. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ - 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/