On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 15:54 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > A while back I needed help with an ext2 file system that required > checking every boot before mounting. The drive suffered from errors > involving 'non-contiguous files'
I'm not sure what your problem was but this wasn't it. "Non-contiguous files" simply means there is some fragmentation in your filesystem, which is totally natural. It's not an error, or even a warning for that matter. It's informational. High fragmentation is an indication that your filesystem may not be performing optimally, but it's not an error. > .The solution was to run (this is > where things get hazy) e2fsck <option> <option> on the offender. I > keep thinking it's '-i -o', but there's no such options. Maybe it > wasn't e2fsck at all. I can't remember. I don't think it was > '-f''(force). I'm not sure why your system needed to be checked for each boot. Perhaps you can post the exact error message? I'm pretty sure it wasn't fragmentation. What it *might* be saying (but again we can't verify without an error message) is that your filesystem contains errors that cannot be fixed in non-interactive mode (i.e. you need to run fsck manually). It's hard to tell you what option you need when we are unsure what problem you are trying to fix.
