On Thursday 17 March 2005 06:33, Paul Howarth wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 17 March 2005 06:03, Paul Howarth wrote: >>>Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>Greetings, the subject says it all. >>>> >>>>When the number of boots has excceded the set value for a >>>>partition, and this forces an e2fsck run, it works fine for >>>>/dev/hda based partitions, but runs totally silent for /dev/hdd >>>>based partitions. >>>> >>>>I'd like to see if I can fix that so I don't think the machine is >>>>locked while its doing that and all screen output ceases for the >>>>5+ minutes it takes to check a 180GB partition. >>> >>>It's /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit >>> >>>e2fsck decides for itself if it needs to do the check; that's not >>>done by the script. >>> >>>Paul. >> >> No wonder I couldn't find it Paul. You can grep for e2fsck in >> rc.sysinit, and never come up with the actual command line that >> does that. Is e2fsck itself a binary or a script that could be >> easily fixed? > >e2fsck is a binary, and it's called from fsck for ext2/3 > filesystems. > >Which filesystems do you have on /dev/hdd ? Miss-cued, first reply didn't supply all the answers, sorry, Paul. The usual ext3 on /dev/hdd2 & 3, 1 is swap. >Does putting: > >-V > >in /fsckoptions help? > >Paul. No such file can be found by locate. ?? -- 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) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
