On Sunday 29 September 2002 17:12, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > In the case of ext3 you could still boot since the root file system > will simply be mounted as ext2. I've never had to actually test this, > but it's supposed to work, right? But your point is well taken. > Unless the ext3 filesystem is marked unclean from a previous crash. In this case ext2 should refuse to mount it. You have to run e2fsck to replay the journal, AFAIK. regards C. Martins