On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 22:55, Damon Lynch wrote: > 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 > > > ---- >
> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I really could have used this info two months ago :( The power cord came loose from the back of my server, so of course the file system was not unmounted cleanly. I followed the prompts thinking it was the only way to "fix" my system and I ended up losing about 75% of my data. Wouldn't you know it, after 2 days of intensive system rebuilding, my daughter hit the power button and *BZZZZOT* there goes my system again. Again I dutifully followed the prompts and ended up losing about 50% of my date, off to rebuild again... Then just yesterday X blew up on my and froze the system. I reset and this time I ignored the nagging insistence to fsck. Instead I answered 'n' and it dropped me into maintenance mode. I ran fsck.ext3 on all the partitions, it recovered all the journals, and TADA--the system rebooted just fine, all data in tact. I sure wish I hadn't figured out the hard way to NOT let the system "fix" itself. -- Brian Keefer
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