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Re: automating e2fsck to assume y



On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:08:48AM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i've had some problems lately with one of my debian boxes... it's a k6-2
> 350 mhz with about 256 mb ram. i think one of the dimm's may be bad.
> 
> so, it crashes once in a while, and seems if i have downloaded large
> amounts of data just before the crash, e2fsck will run at startup and
> take forever - and fix errors.
> 
> i'm running ext2 - is there any way, such as in fstab, to specify "-y"
> to e2fsck if it ever needs to be run manually at startup?

I believe there is a way to do that, though I don't know what it is. I
seem to remember hearing that it has some risk of trashing your
filesystem.

Wouldn't it make more sense to switch to a journalling fs such as
ext3? I believe you can switch from ext2 to ext3 non-destructively...

	Cheers!
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