Re: ext3 fsck question

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Thu, 1 Mar 2001 13:04:13 +0000


Hi,

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:03:21PM -0600, Neal Gieselman wrote:
>
> I applied the libs and other utilites from e2fsprogs by hand.
> I ran fsck.ext3 on my secondary partition and it ran fine. The boot fsck
> on / was complaining about something but I could not catch it.
> I then went single user and ran fsck.ext3 on / while mounted.

e2fsck should complain loudly and ask for confirmation if you do that.
Goin ahead with the fsck is a bad move on a mounted, rw filesystem!

> Excuse the stupid question, but with ext3, do I really require the
> fsck.ext3?

fsck.ext3 is just a link to e2fsck. Make sure you're running recent
e2fsprogs, though (either the latest snapshot from
downloads.sourceforge.net or a build from
ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/).

Cheers,
Stephen
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