Re: reiserfs question

[Rajesh Fowkar <rfowkar@yahoo.com>]

Karsten M. Self saw fit to inform me that: 
>on Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 03:52:24PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith (smithkevinc@nettaxi.com) wrote:
>> Maybe this is a stupid question but:
>> 
>> I plan to try the reiserfs, but an curious about the fsck.
>> In particular, about when it runs after so many boots.
>> Do I have to disable this somehow. I suspect a e2fsck on a reiserfs
>> would be bad.
>
>This behavior is dictated by your /etc/fstab.  ext2fs filesystems will
>fsck on some count of mounts (with appropriate mount options).  By
>specifying 'reiserfs' as the filesystem type, which is necessary to
>mount the reiserfs filesystem(s), you'll avoid this behavior.
>
>Compare, e.g.:  vfat, minix, iso9660, and other filesystem types, which
>don't run automatic filesystem checks on mount counts.
>
>e2fsck on a non-ext2fs filesystem will exit with errors, no harm done
>(not sure in case of ext3fs).

Just yesterday Converted my ext2 file system of Potato to ext3. It was a smooth
shift.

debian:~# mount
/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/cdrom on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=rajesh)
/dev/hda6 on /mnt/funstuff type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/hda5 on /mnt/data type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/hda9 on /mnt/ext3 type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
debian:~# 

debian:~# e2fsck /dev/hda9
e2fsck 1.22, 22-Jun-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/hda9: clean, 12/134784 files, 175293/269080 blocks

No problems with e2fsck on ext3. However see to it that u have the latest
version of e2fsprogs. The current one is 1.22 which works quite well.

Warm Regards


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