Don't feed the trolls. It only encourages them. On Saturday 08 March 2003 02:20 pm, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 04:37:56 -0500, John Lowell wrote: > > > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > > >What's the question? Why do you see need to use option -j? > > > > > >Run "fsck /dev/xxx" and see. Recent versions of e2fsprogs would hide the journal > > >anyway. > > > > > > > > > > > Let me see if I can be helpful to you here, Mr. Schwendt. > > Really helpful would be to just read the manual. Also helpful would > be if you explained what makes you believe you must use option -j in > the way you presented it. That would give us subscribers a better > picture of what you've been trying to achieve. There are other fsck > options which make sense when checking a file system. You don't want > to miss them. > > > The question > > initially and now has simply been whether or not the right command to > > run a file system check on an ext3 file system is e2fsck -j /dev/xxxx, > > one answered simply enough with a yes or a no, and, if with a no, with > > an indication of the proper command. > > A brief look at "e2fsck --help" would tell you that your > command-line is a syntax error. > > Running that command would give an error and print the command's > syntax description and options overview. > > > The marvelous economy involved in > > employing a proceedure of this kind would seem to have escaped you. As > > earlier I'd mentioned to you that I wasn't much for tolerating abuse, > > know further that I'm equally averse to "answers" that suggest that I > > might learn through experimentation. If you have an answer to bring to > > my question, bring it, otherwise spare me further messages kindly. > > This is nonsense. If I were a troll and answered "yes" to your > initial question, would you run the command without verifying that > it doesn't wipe your data? The man page is where you can check what > the command would do. > > If you don't want to use "fsck /dev/xx", that's your problem. > > -- > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > > -- Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt =========================================== The difference between robbery and taxes is simple: The first is someone threatening to hurt you if you do not give them your money. The second is legal. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
