Greetings; This machine has a 200GB drive thats used for vtapes and swap, and when it setup /dev/hdd3 as the mountpoint/amandatapes, it set it up for an e2fsck every 22 mounts. Thats fine, no problem with that, but when it does this check during a boot, there will be a line indicating the check has been forced, followed by other lines on the screen as it mounts some of the rest of the other drives. 2, maybe 3 more lines of that below the check forced line. But the check is totally silent, no progress bar, no little twiddling thumbs in text mode, nothing! Now, for a 180GB partition, this obviously does take a while, and the first time it happened I thought the boot had hung and 3 fingered it a couple of times before I discovered that the drive access led was flickering like mad. It doesn't face me as its under an adjacent desk Partitions on other drives (/dev/hdax, /dev/hdbx) get the usual progress report when they are being checked, so why isn't this one? An rc.sysinit bug maybe? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.33% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
