On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 12:25 +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
There is fsck.ext2 and fsck.ext3, fsck just picks the correct one to use.
OK. And then fsck.ext2 sets up the required options to e2fsck for the actual checking. I am not a Linux/Unix newbie (> 20 years using Unix and then Linux). But, luckily, I seldom have to run fsck on a file system, let alone the actual file system-specific checkers themselves that fsck will in turn run. Kudos to Linux file system developers for making me almost fsck illiterate :) Given that most people never run the file system-specific checkers and thus have little experience with them, I think it is unnecessarily confusing to suggest, in an incomplete manner, that users do this when the boot fails. I guess that an alternative was for me to run the 10.3 recovery from the 10.3 install DVD. Would that have run fsck more completely, not stopping like the boot does and making ne run fsck by hand? If so, it could be a great idea to suggest this in the boot message as well. Of course, I heard rumors that the recovery in the 10.3 GM DVD was broken. Was that just a rumor? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 And remember: It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about large city with all constructions finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org