whats a Journalling filesystems?

Robert MacLean

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From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Robert MacLean"
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Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] fsck


> FSCK = File System ChecK
>
> It is the equivalent of Scandisc in Windos (i.e. it finds and
corrects file
> system errors), but it does a much more thorough job. It will
usually kick in
> automatically on your Ext2 partitions if you haven't unmounted them
correctly
> (e.g. not shut down correctly) and after a certain number of
mount/unmount
> operations (I forget how many).
>
> Journalling filesystems like ReiserFS (in Mandrake since 7.1), Ext3
(in
> Cooker), and JFS (not in Mandrake) remove the need to FSCK, and so
are far
> more rugged then Ext2.
>
>
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:16, Robert MacLean wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I had a power problem and my machine reset, and I was prompted to
> > login and use fsck. My question is two fold. What is fsck (it
seems
> > dangerous from the man pages) and secondly what are the command
line
> > options I should use?
> >
> > Robert MacLean
>
> --
> Sridhar Dhanapalan.
> "There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
> LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
> -- Jeremy S. Anderson
>
>


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