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On Monday 30 November 2009 18:09:07 Maxim Wexler wrote: |
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> aarrrgh!! I'm the one with the netbook!! The default didn't work. |
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> Checking fs every boot does. Extra reboot time amounts to a few secs |
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> vs not booting at all, dammit! |
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You are missing the point. That behaviour is wrong and I cannot overstate that |
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enough. |
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If your system requires an fsck at every boot to even reboot at all, then |
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there is something badly wrong with your filesystem. Enabling an fsck at every |
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boot for ext2 is merely working around the problem at another level and not |
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addressing the actual problem. |
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So please stop arguing with people who are trying to help you and instead find |
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out why your system is exhibiting incorrect behaviour. My first guess is that |
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the filesystem is not being correctly unmounted at shutdown and is therefore |
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marked as dirty at next startup. Ext2 does require an fsck under those |
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circumstances as the chances of data corruption are vastly increased - the |
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assumption being that power to the machine was probably removed abruptly. |
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There could be many reasons for this and you will have to investigate your |
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shutdown process carefully. |
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Do you disagree with my logic as stated above? |
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> On 11/30/09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Monday 30 November 2009 05:40:31 Maxim Wexler wrote: |
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> >> > Right. |
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> >> wrong |
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> >> > Of course, if there are serious filesystem structural problems you'll |
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> >> > want to get them solved, but it's either a LiveCD chroot or disable |
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> >> > fsck at boot. |
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> >> There's nothing wrong with the filesystem. It's ext2 and requires |
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> >> being checked at every boot. |
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> > Wrong. There is no need to fsck ext2 at every boot. The default is to |
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> > check it |
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> > every 26 mounts. You can change that if you want, and send your reboot |
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> > times sky-high.. |
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> >> Before that it wouldn't boot at all. |
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> > That would appear to be a completely separate issue. |
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> > -- |
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> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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