On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:18:34 -0400 Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Three weeks ago I was bitten by the Dell PCMCIA bug, and it caused a crash which took down the root filesystem (I was using ext2). I decided to change to JFS and have been happy with it thus far. It's included in the official kernel beginning with 2.4.20. I had already been using ext3 on my other systems, so I was considering a change already. Kevin
