On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 10:02, Peter M�ller Neergaard wrote: > I am running Mandrake on laptop. Unfortunately my APM suspend is not > flawless so occasionally my laptop powers off when I try to suspend. > Obviously this results in unsynchronized file systems and a check at > boot time. > > For that reason I have formatted all my partitions (including /) as > ext3 to have a journal to recover from. This does however not work > for / where es2fsck is scanning the whole disk looking for errors. > > I presume that it is because ext3 is not build into the Mandrake > kernel and thus have to be loaded as a module. Consequently the file > system will only be mounted as ext2 and an old type scan will take > place. > > One possible solution would of course be to compile the kernel with > ext3 build. I would however prefer a solution where I could just use > Mandrake's kernel. Is this possible? > > Thanks > > /Peter
Peter, Sounds like you also have a compaq laptop *grin*. I've had this happen more than once here as well. (Others I know who run winders report similar fun.) I've switched to reiserfs over ext3 do to a much lower level of trouble from file corruption. The one thing I can highly recommend. Do not say yes when it comes back with "You have 5 seconds to type yes to do a file system check". The journal will then take care of things for you. Rather than having fsck, fsck things up. Although I've not found a reason why. I have tried to build the file system info directly into the kernel rather than as a module. I ended up with a kernel that could boot and run everything but the file system I compiled into the kernel instead of as a module. James
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