Re: Can I convert an ext2 fs to Resierfs?

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

P Kirk <patrick@enterprise-hr.com> writes:

> But is there any need to check the fs from time to time or can I
> assume that my little box now has the type of resilience that users of
> BeOS used rave about?

The manpage says this about "-c":

              You  should  strongly  consider the consequences of
              disabling mount-count-dependent checking  entirely.
              Bad  disk  drives,  cables, memory, and kernel bugs
              could all corrupt a filesystem without marking  the
              filesystem  dirty  or  in  error.  If you are using
              journaling on your filesystem, your filesystem will
              never  be  marked dirty, so it will not normally be
              checked.  A filesystem error detected by the kernel
              will still force an fsck on the next reboot, but it
              may already be too late to  prevent  data  loss  at
              that point.

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