whats a Journalling filesystems? Robert MacLean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Robert MacLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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