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Re: botched ext3 conversion



On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:49:18AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 20/01/03 John Griffiths did speaketh:
> > great, thanks.
> > 
> > the forcefsck was recommended to me i didn't think it'd hurt.
> 
>     It was a good recommendation actually. The next fsck is what hides the
> journal permanently. 

Won't the normal fsck on boot do the job? /forcefsck adds the -f option,
"force checking even if the file system seems clean"; I didn't realize
the forced check was required here.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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