On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 18:04 +0100, Matthias Koenig wrote: > Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Should field 8 of /etc/fstab (fs_passno) be zero for these mount points? > > Is there any reason for it to be anything different? > > Why? zero would mean that they should never get checked. > I think it is reasonable to have the choice to get your crypto > filesystems checked. Current practise for SuSE has been to allow > only 0, but checked this filesystem anyway, which has lead to complaints. > So we want to do this more consistent. Zero tells fsck not to check the filesystem during reboot. It's what tells fsck -A which filesystems to check. If we don't expect the filesystem to be check-able during that phase, a non-zero value won't have any real meaning. -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
