Hi, On Tue 17-08-10 17:01:30, Anil kumar wrote: > As I understand in case of EXT3 filesystem there is NO need of e2fsck > when system is power pulled (or system crash). Are there any Yes. > circumstances during power pull or system crash, where even in EXT3 upon > boot, e2fsck maybe required. No, there shouldn't be. > B'coz what I see is that I have EXT3 and when system is power pulled, > upon reboot it asks for e2fsck for consistency check. The hard disk > drive cache is disabled in the setup. > > Is it possible that something in journal may not have commited to the > disk and hence fsck consistency is required? Can you share more details? Like kernel version, logs from e2fsck, maybe what happened to the machine before it got to this state... Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html