Re: [gentoo-user] memory(gray matter) needs jog-DONE

2009-10-30 Thread Maxim Wexler
I'm not sure why your system needed to be checked for each boot. Perhaps you can post the exact error message? I'm pretty sure it wasn't fragmentation. What it *might* be saying (but again we can't verify without an error message) is that your filesystem contains errors that cannot be

Re: [gentoo-user] memory(gray matter) needs jog-DONE

2009-10-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Oct 2009, at 17:04, Maxim Wexler wrote: ... Yes I know, ext2 is rather retro, but I was persuaded to use it by reading the forums and now it's a lot simpler just to run tune2fs rather thman scrap the system and start again. I know you can convert an ext3 filesystem to ext4. Can you not

Re: [gentoo-user] memory(gray matter) needs jog-DONE

2009-10-30 Thread Kyle Bader
And iirc you can got ext3 - ext2. The same does not hold true for ext4 - ext3. On 10/30/09, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/30/2009 10:26 AM, Stroller wrote: On 30 Oct 2009, at 17:04, Maxim Wexler wrote: ... Yes I know, ext2 is rather retro, but I was persuaded to use it by reading the

[gentoo-user] memory(gray matter) needs jog

2009-10-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, A while back I needed help with an ext2 file system that required checking every boot before mounting. The drive suffered from errors involving 'non-contiguous files'.The solution was to run (this is where things get hazy) e2fsck option option on the offender. I keep thinking it's '-i

Re: [gentoo-user] memory(gray matter) needs jog

2009-10-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 15:54 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, A while back I needed help with an ext2 file system that required checking every boot before mounting. The drive suffered from errors involving 'non-contiguous files' I'm not sure what your problem was but this wasn't it.