I'm running an OpenAFS/Debian server on a 1 TB SATA drive, connected via a 1520 Rocketraid PCI card (This is a "lab" and not a critical production environment, if that wasn't immediately apparent). I had all my partitions set up as Ext3, but I started having trouble with FSCK checks at boot. FSCK would just hang on /vicepa, even when I tried running it manually, so I disabled the boot check on that (my AFS) partition. When I ran my hard drive manufacturer's disk utility I found errors on the drive which were subsequently corrected. Then I read more about Ext3s journaling, speed, etc., and I decided to switch /vicepa to Ext2 (the other partitions remain Ext3) just to see whether it made any difference. It seems that FSCK now runs without a problem. So I'm wondering whether you have any advice or comments about any of this. Whether, for instance, it's bad to mix filesystem types in this context? Whether FSCK has issues with journaled filesystems? It seems that if I stay with Ext2, what I'm losing specifically is better chance of recovery in the event of a power loss or other event which might cause data loss. Since this is a test environment I realize I have nothing to lose, but as always I appreciate the feedback. John
