[Voyage-linux] Re: check/repair fs

[Raimund Berger]

Tom Billiet <mouse256-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Raimund Berger
> Time: 23-06-09 22:40
>> Looks like file system checks during boot have all been disabled in
>> voyage. Wasn't quite aware of that myself. But it's better anyway,
>> cause on errors the system might drop you into a shell to which you
>> wouldn't have any remote access.
>>   
> Sure about that? I think they just work on my alix, but you need to make
> sure your line in /etc/fstab looks like this:
> /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime,rw 0 1
> -> notice the 1 at the end. If that's a 0, no checks will be executed on
> boot

Thanks, good point. The fstab entry is disabled anyway for the root fs
though, which I believe is the default, and what's supposed to be root
is just passed per boot parameter, from whence the boot scripts would
take care of everything else.

Admittedly, I didn't look into those too closely though because, for a
flashcard, you wouldn't want to have regular checks anyway. So I just
used to turn them off safely via tunefs, just to be sure there won't be
checks no matter what the boot scripts do.

So I take your statement then as confirmation that checks are
performed when the fstab entry is enabled in the way you said. Good
to know.

Thanks for the feedback, R.