On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 16:15, Todd Lyons wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Damon Lynch wanted us to know: > > >> "I don't care that you are using a journalized filesystem like ext3, I > >> want you to do a full blown filesystem check as if you were ext2." > >So why does it do this on bootup, on the root filesystem? What is the > > Mounting the root filesystem is the most important part of the boot > process after the kernel has detected all the hardware. You want to > give the sysadmin the most options to recover from a bolloxed <sp?> > unclean shutdown. This is one.
Fair enough too. But I do think that for the "rest of us", an additional part of the message pointing out that the journalling system will / has otherwise done its thing should the user not select "Y" would reduce stress and clarify what will happen. Thanks for all the info - I had been wondering about this issue for a while. Damon
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