"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:10:13PM +0200, Pixel wrote:
> >
> > my fault.
> >
> > "mke2fs -j" is not enough for ext3 formatting,
>
> Sure it is.
>
> > "tune2fs -c0 -i0" is also needed.
>
> NOOOOO! Don't do that. Not to 0 anyway. Those periodic fscks are
> not there because there is no journalling in ext2. They are there to
> ensure the filesystem has not been corrupted by disk errors along the
> way or that the filesystem code is not messing something up.
i don't know much about it. But:
- the count is really too arbitrary. A server can't wait 3 hours for the 40GB
fsck terminates, can it?
- that's what redhat does
