Is there anybody with ext3 up and running who would volunteer to do a couple of unclean shutdowns and see if the recovery works without any fsck errors present afterwards?
Works every time here:
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem. EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.21-pre4/modul)
INIT: version 2.84 booting Activating swap. Adding Swap: 131532k swap-space (priority -1) Checking root file system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hda2: clean, 34571/1235456 files, 175807/2469096 blocks EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal System time was Fri Apr 11 07:45:01 UTC 2003.
mqpro:~# e2fsck /dev/hda2 e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hda2: clean, 34565/1235456 files, 175809/2469096 blocks mqpro:~# e2fsck -f /dev/hda2 e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information /dev/hda2: 34565/1235456 files (1.1% non-contiguous), 175809/2469096 blocks mqpro:~#
/Brian