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On Sunday 07 May 2006 11:01, Dieter Ries wrote: |
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> my first problem is an init problem concerning filesystem checks. |
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> everytime i boot up my gentoo-machine, all filesystems get checked. at |
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> first i thought that perhaps reiser was not able to handle my maxtor 300GB |
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> S-ATA disk, so today i changed to Ext3 fs. But the problem is still there. |
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> i had checkfs and checkroot removed from all the runlevels using rc-update, |
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> but rc-status -a said both started in runlevel UNASSIGNED. I tried pushing |
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> it to BOOT because BOOT is before localmount i think, but it had no effect. |
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> with e3fs it only takes about 5 seconds to check, but i dont think it is |
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> necessary to check all the filesystems everytime i boot.. |
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If you continue using ext2/3, you can use tune2fs -c a /dev/sdxy, where a is |
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the reciprocal of the frequency you want the filesystems checked, e.g. "-c 3" |
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would be every third boot, "-c 10" would be every tenth boot, etc. This |
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would obviously be done before the filesystems were mounted. |
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I'm not aware of any checkfs/checkroot chores that have been performed on my |
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gentoo systems that were not also part of either reiserfsck or e2fsck. Are |
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you sure this wasn't just notification of the journal being checked and found |
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OK? |
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> hope someone can help me, if you need further information i'll send, just |
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> ask. |
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> |
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> cu |
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> Dieter |
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