From: "mi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Anybody on a laptop list experienced with that ?... > Am i right that fsck shouldn't be run upon the running root-filesystem, so > one rather would boot another linux (e.g. from an installer cd ) to do that ? > > ( For the curious, yes, now I'm ready to move to ext3 ;-)
Regularly... I have an as-yet-undiagnosed bug that locks me up and requires a poweroff to reset, so I get the fsck on boot messages all the time. It mounts the root system read-only to fsck it when required. Then remounts it when the fsck is done - and you don't actually get to boot till it's all finished. Since / is an ext3 partition, it doesn't usually need to fsck it, but the hard reset almost always requires a second boot because the PCMCIA card doesn't come up, and I run into the 20-mount limit at least once a week. btw, if you have /boot as a <40MB partition, usually mounted read-only, you would never need it to be ext3 anyway - completely eliminating the previous question about grub on ext3. This may make some differenct to the above scenario, since my initrd image is on the /boot partition. I only mount /boot rw when I update lilo. -- derek
