On Friday 19 September 2003 01:02 pm, Peter M�ller Neergaard wrote: > I am running Mandrake on laptop. Unfortunately my APM suspend is not > flawless so occasionally my laptop powers off when I try to suspend. > Obviously this results in unsynchronized file systems and a check at > boot time. > > For that reason I have formatted all my partitions (including /) as > ext3 to have a journal to recover from. This does however not work > for / where es2fsck is scanning the whole disk looking for errors. > > I presume that it is because ext3 is not build into the Mandrake > kernel and thus have to be loaded as a module. Consequently the file > system will only be mounted as ext2 and an old type scan will take > place. > > One possible solution would of course be to compile the kernel with > ext3 build. I would however prefer a solution where I could just use > Mandrake's kernel. Is this possible?
AFAIK, support for Ext3 and ReiserFS, both journaling file systems are built into the Mandrake kernel, either integrated or as modules that are available at boot. My own / drive is ReiserFS and on those few occasions that I have had a power outage, the machine has recovered nicely without any major problems using the Reiser journal. You might want to give us a little more info about why you think that ext3 is not working correctly. I have one drive formatted as ext3, just on the off chance that I need to mount it from a boot CD that doesn't support ReiserFS and it takes longer to recover than the Reiser ones from the journal but it does recover from the journal. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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