Re: e2fsck

[Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:47:52PM +0000, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Thanks a lot. Do these indications hold also for an external usb hd that is 
> shared with another machine? In fstab is presently dump 0, pass 0, so I have 
> to change to pass 1. If so, is it checked not-mounted at boot?
> 
> Which options are used on automatic check? I refer to options for e2fsck, if 
> this applies to automatic check.
> 
> Should I check the external usb hd manually by e2fsck (which, is I remember 
> correctly, for ext3 should only run the journal unless something very bad is 
> involved), which options are to be given? -p alone?

I always just run fsck /dev/blah

Let if figure out the fs itself.

As for external drives, no I would not ask it to fsck those since most
likely they are not set to mount automatically at boot.  Those you can
easily fsck before mounting them.

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Len Sorensen