Hi, On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:18:43PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020313 21:34]: > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:13:08AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020306 19:12]: > > > > I've got 2.4.17 on all my systems. (2.4.18 is out now, but not > > > > packaged last I checked) Are there any tricks or gotchas to setting > > > > it up? Here's what I know (I did include support in the kernel) : > > > > o /etc/fstab -- s/ext2/ext3/ > > > > > > try this instead: s/ext2/ext3,ext2/ > > > > > > This means that the kernel will attempt to mount it as ext3, and if that > > > doesn't work it'll try ext2. That means that if you later try to boot > > > with a non-ext3-aware kernel you won't have to change anything: it'll > > > still boot just fine, only without journaling. > > > > > I like this but there is one reminder on this. You need to create > > fsck.ext3,ext2 symlink to have clean boot on ext3 system. > > What happens if this link is not present? It seems to work fine without > it on my 2.4.18 system. Maybe it was fixed? All of my partitions are > ext3, and even after the power went out the system came back up cleanly, > recovering the journals and mounting the filesystems without trouble. I > should watch it more cleanly; maybe it'll try to run it and fail only > after a partition reaches its max mount-count. Do you have an example of > how it fails if this link is nonexistent?
Just for record: I know it does boot cleanly without this. Only problem is that root file system is not "fsck"ed during boot. It just skip and boot fine. It is a short blip on boot screen. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D Visit Debian reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/ There are 6 files: index.{en|fr|it}.html quick-reference.{en|fr|it}.txt I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.
