Andreas Dilger wrote: >On May 19, 2002 23:43 -0400, David Chase wrote: > >>Hi all, I seem to be having a problem whereby my ext3 filesystem forces >>a full fsck on every hard system crash. This takes over 20 minutes on my >>40GB drive and is driving me nuts. I've verified that the partition is, >>in fact, being mounted as ext3 and have tried removing ^has_journal and >>re-creating the journal file but nothing has worked. I'm running RH7.2... >>Any ideas would be much appreciated. >> > >How did you confirm this? Via "mount" output, or via "cat /proc/mounts"? >When e2fsck is run, what reason does it give for running? > Andreas, as soon as I had clicked "send" it occurred to me that I may not have "confirmed" after all. "cat /proc/mounts" output the following: /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0 So I assume you're correct -- I'm not mounting as ext3 after all, hence the fsck. Any ideas why the partition is being mounted as ext2? Apologies for asking such a simple question in a very technical mailing list, but I've exhausted the FAQ, the man pages, and several Google searches... Besides, even techies start as newbs :)
