naxis wrote: > I have a problem with my machine.When I turn it off,on boot I have a > filesystem error.I have to type Ctl+D and run fsck before it works. > I'm thinking about setting the journal mode but I dont very well. > Gene Heskett wrote: > Thats because linux is like any Good Operating System, it flushes all > disk caches and synchronizes the disks such that there aren't any > errors when you do a gracefull shutdown by grabbing a shell, and > typeing: > > shutdown -h now(enterkey) Having said that, both ext3 and reiserfs are journalled filesystems, so they should be able to gracefully recover from a system shutdown. Fedora can be configured to auto-fsck anyway, but it shouldn't find any problems. You might want to take a look at the output of mount, and check that you're using one or the other (or, theoretically, something like JFS or XFS). For example, you might get a line like this: /dev/root on / type ext3 (rw) showing that you're using ext3 (which is good). (Note: rootfs, proc, tmpfs, usbfs, sysfs, and devpts are all virtual filesystems or ones that are recreated on each boot. They shouldn't be problematic anyway.) You might also want to check that all the partitions in /etc/fstab are really mounting. If you've moved a disk, then fsck will fail on that disk, so the boot sequence will drop you to a shell. Hope this helps, James. -- James Wilkinson | It is difficult to produce a television documentary Exeter Devon UK | that is both incisive and probing when every twelve E-mail address: james | minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits @westexe.demon.co.uk | singing about toilet paper. -- R. Serling
