On Monday 05 August 2002 22:32, Anders Johansson wrote:

On Monday 05 August 2002 22:24, Nick Selby wrote:

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This is what separates people like you from people like me. I did that because I didn't understand what the hell I was doing. I got confused, frankly between the man entries for fsck and e2fsck. Saw somethng in the former that suggested that the latter did something the former did with a lot of switches without having to use them

That wasn't what I meant. I meant at install time, why you chose to go with an ext2 file system. But it isn't important, because I just realized that e2fsck can be used with ext3 partitions too. I hope that's what you used, because ext2 is just *too* old :)

At install time, i swear, I just took what was offered.

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Here's all I got from Tomsrtbt:

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w(rite).

Hm. Didn't you get a command prompt after this? Like this

Command (m for help):

where you could type "p" (or "w", as the warning suggested)?

Yes, and I did w as suggested and it came back with with that but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause

problems with:

1. Software that runs at boot time (eg old versions of lilo) 2. Booting and partitioning software from other os's (eg dos, fdisk, os/2 fdisk)

Warning: Ignoring extra data in partition table 5 Warning: Ignoring extra data in partition table 5 Warning: Ignoring extra data in partition table 5

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