Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Thanks Joe, I do it just like this and indeed it works. This is the "plain great unix style" that works anytime.
Glad it also worked for you.
Now, one question: What do you mean by "adding code to fsck"? And what do you achieve doing this?
I decided it would be good to make sure the filesystem was always consistent. So, not being a programmer, I shamelessly copied the relevant part of the script in /etc/init.d/boot.localfs to check the status of the filesystem and fsck it if needed. I actually put my backup script together back during 8.2, so I used the code for then. When 9.3 started automounting, I changed to always umount first, then fsck, then mount and backup. With 10.2, I needed to tweak it some to umount by the dev rather than mountpoint, but other than that it has worked very well.
Thanks much for clarification
No problem. No use in struggling to solved what has already been solved. :-) -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org