This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C1FBCD.D2884D20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, can anyone give me an example of when an fsck would repair something that the ext3 driver would not? with full "data=3Djournal" journaling, would fsck ever need to be run if all the partitions were ext3? the ext3 mini-howto refers to "certain rare hardware failure cases (e.g. hard drive failures)" that would require a=20 filesystem check, but doesn't go into details. thanks in advance. Regards, Tom Bassel Hybrid Servers www.HybridServers.com ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C1FBCD.D2884D20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>can anyone give me an example = of</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>when an fsck would repair = something</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>that the ext3 driver would not? =20 with</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>full "data=3Djournal" journaling, = would</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>fsck ever need to be run if all = the</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>partitions were ext3?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>the ext3 mini-howto refers to=20 "certain</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>rare hardware failure cases (e.g. = hard</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>drive failures)" that would require a = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>filesystem check, but doesn't go = into</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>details.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>thanks in advance.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Regards,<BR>Tom Bassel<BR>Hybrid=20 Servers</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><A=20 href=3D"http://www.HybridServers.com">www.HybridServers.com</A></FONT></D= IV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C1FBCD.D2884D20--