Re: automating e2fsck to assume y

2003-10-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Jason M. Harvey wrote: > i've had some problems lately with one of my debian boxes... it's a k6-2 > 350 mhz with about 256 mb ram. i think one of the dimm's may be bad. apt-get install memtest86 Then read /usr/share/doc/memtest86/examples/* and make the memtest image one of your possible boot i

Re: automating e2fsck to assume y

2003-10-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jason On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > i'm running ext2 - is there any way, such as in fstab, to specify "-y" > to e2fsck if it ever needs to be run manually at startup? when you manually run e2fsck, use -p to tell it to just go and clean it up and once a year or so, it wil

Re: automating e2fsck to assume y

2003-10-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 17:49 GMT, ScruLoose penned: > Wouldn't it make more sense to switch to a journalling fs such as > ext3? I believe you can switch from ext2 to ext3 non-destructively... Completely non-destructively. You can also choose to mount an ext3 drive as ext2 after you've converted i

Re: automating e2fsck to assume y

2003-10-27 Thread ScruLoose
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:08:48AM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > hi, > > i've had some problems lately with one of my debian boxes... it's a k6-2 > 350 mhz with about 256 mb ram. i think one of the dimm's may be bad. > > so, it crashes once in a while, and seems if i have downloaded large > amo

automating e2fsck to assume y

2003-10-27 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hi, i've had some problems lately with one of my debian boxes... it's a k6-2 350 mhz with about 256 mb ram. i think one of the dimm's may be bad. so, it crashes once in a while, and seems if i have downloaded large amounts of data just before the crash, e2fsck will run at startup and take forever