Anthony Campbell wrote: > It's precisely the above warnings that make me rather nervous of using > ext3 (though I have it on all my filesystems at the moment, mainly to > cope with the frequent lockups I am experiencing, for unknown reasons). > The available documentation on ext3 doesn't seem to make things very > clear, at least to me. > > If I leave /etc/fstab as it is, will all the file systems continue to be > checked as normal when I reboot?
No, the only thing you get is a warning from Ext3 that running e2fsck manually is recommended > Or should I issue tune2fs commands > (with appropriate time or mount switches) and change /etc/fstab in some > way? If so, how? > > What is the purpose of the /forcefsck file that is suggested, and what > commands is it supposed to contain? No commands at all. Just "touch /forcefsck" will force an fsck on / , but not on the other filesystems. > My current /etc/fstab: > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> > <dump> <pass> > # > /dev/hdb1 / auto defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 > 1 > /dev/hdb5 /usr auto defaults 0 > 2 > /dev/hdb6 /var auto defaults 0 > 2 > /dev/hdb7 /usr/local auto defaults 0 > 2 > /dev/hdb8 /home auto defaults 0 > 2 > /dev/hda1 /msdos msdos rw,noauto,user 0 > 0 > /dev/hda3 /backup auto rw,noauto,user 0 > 2 > /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 > 0 > # > proc /proc proc defaults 0 > 0 > /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 > 0 > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 > 0 > # I have ext3,ext2 in the type field, because updatedb won't care for filesystems mounted with type auto. If you use ext3,ext2 a kernel capable of ext3 will use it, a rescue disk kernel will use ext2. (The reason I have not set it to ext3 only...) > Any illumination gratefully received. > > Anthony Still waiting for it myself... joerg -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
