Re: [MiNT] e2fsck problem (fwd)

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@mail.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De>]

Hello!

> > Solution: Copy e2fsck to another partition (best would be as
> > e2fsck.ttp on a TOS filesystem) and run it before the real init
> > process starts, so that no processes are currently using the
> > filesystem to be checked.
>
> Isn't that what the famous fscheck.sh in my easymint installation should
> do ? But it still calls the e2fsck on my Sparemint ext2 partition if I
> understand the content of the script correctly. Wouldn't it be better if
> fscheck.sh would call a e2fsck.ttp that is copied to another (TOS)
> partition than the (ext2) partition it is currently checking?

Thomas is right except that it's not the e2fsck that avoid the drive
locking. It's rather the init and/or syslogd or one of the started
daemons with open files.


Ciao
   ...Frank

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