On Saturday 23 August 2003 03:13 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Today is about the fourth time I had to explain that pressing "Y" for a > filesystem check on an uncleanly shutdown system is a bit idea, at least > on ext3. I think I had it myself once or twice as well. If you do this > fsck is very likely to remove a bit to many of your files. It actually > seems much worse than normally on ext2 (but it is a long time ago that I > used ext2, so perhaps its normal), and it is definately much worse than > using the journal to restore the fs. > > In any case, rc.sysinit message sounds like if pressing Yes within 5 > seconds is a good idea, while on a journalling system, it is probably not > the best idea. So either: > - remove the message al together for journalling fs (an expert can still > do it manually, if for some reason it is wanted) > - make the check sound like a bad idea. > > d. .. or if it's an ext3 partition have it ask about restoring from the journal instead of running the ext2 file system check? Would this be hard to do?
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