On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:28, you wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:06:28AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > It should, of course, be "e2fsck -n /dev/dasd/0cd2/part1" > > Der. Perhaps I ought to stop for the night.
You only did what I said. I woke up to it when I saw the errors. > > > And when not mounted at all.... > > > debinst:~# e2fsck -n /dev/dasd/0cd2/part1 > e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) > /dev/dasd/0cd2/part1: clean, 12/90048 files, 161290/179976 blocks > > > (So, predictably, no warning. But same info.) Okay, use '-f' to force it to check. Just in case. It is telling you the dirty bit's not set and that means nobody else has it mounted rw. I have seen e2fsck find errors when forced to check, even though the filesystem was supposedly clean. After that I'm out of iudeas. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
