When I first installed ext3, it worked as expected. After a crash, journals would be played, and no fsck. Now, every crash causes an fsck, just like it were a regular ext2, even though / has a journal and is being mounted as ext3. Some fs info for / Filesystem features: has_journal filetype sparse_super Filesystem state: not clean Errors behavior: Continue Some fs info for /home, which seems to be working OK: Filesystem features: has_journal filetype needs_recovery sparse_super Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Maybe related to not having a separate /boot partition, and / is getting mounted before kernel journalling is ready? How do I get out of this state? I would like to get quick recovery working, because I'm debugging some problems that are locking up the system.