On 06. may 2002 o 09:45, Ben Reser wrote:

> > if file system is damaged, start scripts want call
> > /sbin/fsck.type_of_fylesystem at partition which is bad. if that
> > partition is reiserfs type, it can't be checked (fixed)..

> This is intentional.  reiserfsck was never intended to be run
> automatically.  The symlink is there to keep the startup scripts happy.
> Fixing this link would defeat the purpose of reiserfs and that is to
> have a journaling file system that does not require a fsck on boot up.  

ok, i agree that argument.
..but, this is my another concern, that mandrake distribution (?) violate
traditional unix/linux style of some things. why isn't here use a sixth
field of /etc/fstab file ? i cite from man page:
man 5 fstab

The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program  to determine  the
order  in which  filesystem  checks are done at reboot time.  The root
filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems
should have a  fs_passno  of  2.   Filesystems within  a  drive will be checked
sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same
time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware.   If the  sixth field
is  not  present  or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume
that the filesystem does not need to be checked.

my /etc/fstab after install looks like that (non reiserfs partitions are
stripped)
/dev/hda5 /boot reiserfs notail 1 2
/dev/hda8 /var reiserfs notail 1 2
/dev/hda10 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2
...


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