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Re: botched ext3 conversion



On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:45:34AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:32:48PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> No, -f is fast boot, no filesystem check even if it otherwise would.
> -F is force check, check all filesystems even if it otherwise wouldn't.

That doesn't match either /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh or the e2fsck man
page.

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



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