Hi I am using ext3 on Smoothwall Express 2 firewall, which I understand is based originally off Red Hat. The machine runs headless, without a monitor. On one ocassion booting stopped, hooking up a monitor revealed this, -- console output -- /dev/harddisk4 has been mounted 29 times without being checked, check forced. /dev/harddisk4: Optimizing directories: 47165 140835 /dev/harddisk4: ***** REBOOT LINUX ***** /dev/harddisk4: 12020/328608 files (0.2 non-contiguous), 46910/657216 blocks Checking root filesystem: Failed *** An error occurred during the file system check. *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot *** when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D for normal startup): -- console output end -- How do I find out what error occured? I don't know much about ext3, I use reiserfs on a desktop machine. I have tried e2fsck and badblocks and the disk does not have any badblocks on any parition. Is it the disk playing up or ext3? At the moment I switch Smoothwall off each night, is it being switched off too much? I should stress I did shutdown properly, the fsck check was because "/dev/harddisk4 has been mounted 29 times without being checked, check forced" not because it was uncleanly umounted. I am using a 3.2gb Maxtor drive, on a AX59pro mobo, AMD K6-2 300mhz, 128mb ram, running Smoothwall 2.0 fixes 1. -- Partitions -- df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/harddisk4 2.5G 145M 2.2G 7% / /dev/harddisk1 7.6M 3.4M 3.8M 47% /boot /dev/harddisk3 636M 22M 581M 4% /var/log cat /etc/fstab /dev/harddisk1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/harddisk2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/harddisk3 /var/log ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/harddisk4 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 Many thanks Richie ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
