Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-09 Thread Jim B
Apologies if this has already been answered. I just subscribed so I may have missed it if so. Anyways, you can create a file in / named forcefsck if you really want to do this: touch /forcefsck See /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh to see why. :)

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Mihaly Gyulai wrote: : On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:40:56Nico De Ranter wrote: : : At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' : because the mounting of partitions happened too many times. : How can I set to run 'e2fsck' after a given number of days

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Wayne Topa wrote: : run man fstab. Then search for fs_passno. : : You have to set the 6th field of fstab to 1 for the root fs and 2 for : the others. This still doesn't force a fsck run if the filesystem is marked clean on shutdown. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-08 Thread Brad
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:58:28AM +, Francois Deppierraz wrote: Ton run e2fsck on a partition at boot the last field in /etc/fstab must be a 1. /dev/hdb5 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 ^^ Actually, the last

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-08 Thread Francois Deppierraz
Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the last field should be one only for the root partition. Any other partitions you want fscked on boot should have a 2 there instead. Partitions that should never be fscked should have a 0. Why does the last field depends on the partition type ? Man

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot? Date: Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:12:25PM -0600 In reply to:Nathan E Norman Quoting Nathan E Norman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Wayne Topa wrote: | | : run man fstab. Then search for fs_passno. | : | : You have to

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-08 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Mihaly Gyulai wrote: Q. How can I set 'e2fsck' to run, whenever I want ? Umount the filesystem you want to check and run e2fsck. If you cannot umount the filesystem because some important program uses it change to runlevel 1: # init 1 After that you should be able to umount the filesystem,

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-08 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Francois Deppierraz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the last field should be one only for the root partition. Any other partitions you want fscked on boot should have a 2 there instead. Partitions that should never be fscked should have a 0. Why does the

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-07 Thread aphro
is that message you get in debian? on my debian machines e2fsck will *automatically* run when they have been mounted too many times..it will say something like /dev/sda1 exceeded maximum mount count check forced.. nate On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Mihaly Gyulai wrote: gyulai I am a newbie to Debian,

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-07 Thread Mihaly Gyulai
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:31:04Martin Fluch wrote: At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' because the mounting of partitions happened too many times. Usualy e2fsck should automaticaly be run on demand at boottime. Do you use the -f option (skip fsck on reboot) when

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-07 Thread Mihaly Gyulai
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:40:56Nico De Ranter wrote: At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' because the mounting of partitions happened too many times. How can I set to run 'e2fsck' after a given number of days ? Normaly the filesystem will automaticaly be checked

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, Mihaly Gyulai wrote: On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:31:04Martin Fluch wrote: At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' Usualy e2fsck should automaticaly be run on demand at boottime. Do you use I use this config for more than 3 months, and there was no

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-07 Thread Francois Deppierraz
Mihaly Gyulai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' because the mounting of partitions happened too many times. How can I set to run 'e2fsck' after a given number of days ? Ton run e2fsck on a partition at boot the last field in /etc/fstab

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, Mihaly Gyulai wrote: Q. How can I set 'e2fsck' to run, whenever I want ? umount the partition, and fsck it. If it's your root partition, or /var (which has this nagging tendency to not be unmountable due to being busy) then the safest way I know requires a reboot, and

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot? Date: Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 03:28:45AM -0800 In reply to:Mihaly Gyulai Quoting Mihaly Gyulai([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:31:04Martin Fluch wrote: | | At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is

How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-06 Thread Mihaly Gyulai
I am a newbie to Debian, I've used RedHat 5 for 2 yrs. At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' because the mounting of partitions happened too many times. How can I set to run 'e2fsck' after a given number of days ? Mihaly Gyulai --== Sent via Deja.com

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-06 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Mihaly Gyulai wrote: I am a newbie to Debian, I've used RedHat 5 for 2 yrs. At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' because the mounting of partitions happened too many times. How can I set to run 'e2fsck' after a given number of days ?