On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Just to say that I've just switched most of my partitions over to reiserfs > and am having exactely the same problems: the boot procedure halts on each > boot-up because of the request for a file-system check on the root partition.
I don't know if this helps, but here is my fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> /dev/discs/disc0/part1 / ext2 defaults 0 1 /dev/discs/disc0/part10 none swap sw 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/discs/disc0/part2 /boot ext2 rw 0 2 /dev/discs/disc0/part5 /usr reiserfs rw 0 0 /dev/discs/disc0/part6 /usr/local ext2 rw 0 2 /dev/discs/disc0/part7 /home reiserfs rw 0 0 /dev/discs/disc0/part8 /var reiserfs rw 0 0 /dev/discs/disc0/part9 /tmp reiserfs rw 0 0 /dev/discs/disc1/part1 /storage-1 vfat rw 0 2 /dev/discs/disc2/part1 /storage-2 reiserfs rw 0 0 /dev/discs/disc3/part1 /mnt/win2k auto ro,user,noauto,uid=ian,gid=ian 0 0 /dev/discs/disc0/part4 /mnt/win2k-boot auto rw,user,noauto,uid=ian,gid=ian 0 0 /dev/floppy/0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /cdrw iso9660 defaults,user,noauto 0 0 /storage-2/SWAP none swap sw 0 0 none /dev/shm shm defaults 0 0 Notice how I have the last field (pass) set at 0 for all reiserfs partitions? Ian