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Re: fsck needed with ext3?



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On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 04:02:07PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> For some reason I had thought that fsck wasn't needed if I was running 
> ext3. I installed Woody using ext3 for my main partition, but still, 
> every 32nd boot, the system runs fsck.

That's normal.

> Is there some setting I'm missing that tells it that I'm running ext3 
> and don't need fsck?

ext3 just means you don't necissarily need to fsck after a crash.  It
doesn't mean that ext3 never needs a fsck.  (It kind of goes for
people, too...if you've got an S/O, just try going 32 reboots without
a good fsck...I bet you go insane!  8;o)

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