From: peterh@jake.prz.tu-berlin.de (Peter Hofmann) Subject: Re: Bugs with .99pl12 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 23:13:03 GMT
>I downloaded ext2fsprogs 0.3. When I run e2fsck on my hard disk, it checks,
>then it marks it clean. If I try to run e2fsck again, it says that the
>filesystem is clean and exits. I know this is normal conduct for e2fsck. The
>problem is that when I reboot (using shutdown -r now) the first mount says it
>is mounting an unchecked file system, which leads me to believe that shutdown
>marked it dirty??? then when my e2fsck runs (which I placed in /etc/rc) it
>goes thru the whole kit and kaboodle and checks the filesystem. Anyone know
>why this is and how to correct it? It should only actually check the system if
>it is not marked clean.
>
Try out bootutils-0.1 (to be found on every good ftp server) and follow the
instructions. The umount included there will cleanly unmount all the mounted
filesystems (even the root filesystem).
Peter
-- Peter Hofmann e-mail: peterh@prz.tu-berlin.de Technical University Berlin Einsteinufer 17 Tel. ++49-(0)30-314-21701 W-1000 Berlin 10, Germany