Dave Selby wrote:
Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 .... after a system crash due to a winmodem driver running with dependency problems ..OK I get the bit about tune2fs -j /dev/hda2 I dont get the bit about touch /forcefsck ????touch changes the file timestamps ? I cant find a reference to forcefsck in its man or info pages. Is it a switch of some kind ?I can understand doing a fsck, but this command sequence has thrown me !! Can anyone shed light ?? Dave
It's just a "flag" file for the init scripts to check. On my box: westk[@fs154l1]:/etc/init.d> grep forcefsck * checkfs.sh: if [ -f /forcefsck ] checkfs.sh:rm -f /fastboot /forcefsck checkroot.sh: if [ -f /forcefsck ] So these scripts know that if this file exists, they need to do something. Kent