Re: configuring ext3 (was Re: new twist on shutting down and restricting ssh users)

[Rick Macdonald <rickmacd@shaw.ca>]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Dave Thayer wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:13:08AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> > * dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) [020306 19:12]:
> > > I've got 2.4.17 on all my systems.  (2.4.18 is out now, but not
> > > packaged last I checked)  Are there any tricks or gotchas to setting
> > > it up?  Here's what I know (I did include support in the kernel) :
> > >     o   /etc/fstab -- s/ext2/ext3/
> >
> > try this instead: s/ext2/ext3,ext2/
> >
>
> If you do this mount won't be able to find fsck unless you create a
> symlink like /sbin/fsck.ext3,ext2 to the original fsck.

Seems odd. fsck isn't the same size as fsck.ext3 and fsck.ext3. What
should the new symlink point to?

timshel# ls -al /sbin/fsck*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        18968 Feb 23 06:58 /sbin/fsck
-rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        99608 Feb 23 06:58 /sbin/fsck.ext2
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        99608 Feb 23 06:58 /sbin/fsck.ext3
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        21144 Jan 27 00:05 /sbin/fsck.minix
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          413 Jan 25 06:05 /sbin/fsck.nfs

...RickM...