Re: RE: [MiNT] a clean "shutdown" command?

[michael@fastlane.net (Michael White)]

>Hi Miachael!
>
>> It just needs to be at least as stable as Minix before I trust it with
>> "real" data, at least on the Afterburner.  Minix fsck typically finds no
>> errors on the file system, even after a hard failure, while ext2 fsck nearly
>> always does.
>
>I can't follow you. All things work perfectly fine here, also on my
>Afterburner.
>
>I doesn't have any Minix partition left on my system at the moment.

Frank,

   Then perhaps I'm doing something wrong.  I created the partition on
a 1 GB partition that sits on a Micropolis 2 GB SCSI drive (external,
of course).  I used whatever the default parameters happened to be,
and only specified the destination drive.

   I'm using Mint 1.15, beta 7, as 1.15.1 crashes too often with AES 4.1.
I'd buy N.AES, but none of the European dealers want to respond to
email.  I'm using HD Driver version 7.11, and ext2 version 0.55.

   Here's some of the errors I get.  Even after running fsck, I still
get the dialog box indicating I should run fsck.  Does this mean I
should run fsck again?  In addition, I get errors such as the following
every time I run fsck.ext2 (I'm using the version of the tools pulled
from your page):

Block bitmap differences:  -9506 +75042 +164627
Fix<y>? yes

Free blocks count wrong for group #1 (7928, counted=7929).
Fix<y>? yes

Free blocks count wrong for group #9 (4057, counted=4056).
Fix<y>? yes

Free blocks count wrong for group #20 (1, counted=0).
Fix<y>? yes

Free blocks count wrong (963309, counted=963308).
Fix<y>? yes


This was actually a fairly quiet one.  Often, I also get 
"restarting fsck" when I run fsck.

As for running fsck during init, am I doing something wrong
here?  Here's my entry:

exec u:\f\usr\local\sbin\fsck.ext2 -p g:

"f" is the minix partition, which has already been fsck'd.
I believe it crashes with "illegal instruction", but I can't
be sure as it flies by too quickly.  If there's some way to
pause init inside mint.cnf, I'd be more than happy to provide
more information.

As I said, I do like the ext2, and would happily replace my
Minix partition with it.  But not with the noise it's been making.

Thanks,

Michael White (michael@fastlane.net)