[App_rpt-users] e2fsck

[Benjamin L. Naber]

That's what it appears to me.

A ham this morning told me the problem maybe the person making the
distro images is using a windows machine, not linux, and he is making
the .img files for FAT when they *should* be ext2

I've been trying everything that I can find to do the filesystem check,
but every embedded distro I've tried doesn't support checking DOS or FAT
files systems.

~Benjamin, KB9LFZ
allstar node 28569




On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 09:37 -0600, Geoff wrote:
> On 11/18/2013 07:44 AM, Benjamin L. Naber wrote:
> > this is coming up when trying to boot a new install of Limey Linux
> >
> > last time I checked, e2fsck is for EXT2 and other Linux extensions, not
> > FAT.
> >
> > Booting comes to a dead halt when the e2fsck checktime has been
> > reached.
> >
> > Any way around this, or disable this checking when booting?
> 
> I'm no expert on Limey Linux, but last I checked, when Linux formats and 
> prepares a drive, it is most certainly -not- in a FAT format.
> 
> e2fsck is probably checking your drive on -every- bootup because there's 
> an issue with the drive.
> 
>  From 'man e2fsck' :
> 
> DESCRIPTION
> e2fsck is used to check a Linux second extended file system (ext2fs). 
> E2fsck also supports ext2 filesystems containing a journal, which are 
> also sometimes known as ext3
> filesystems, by first applying the journal to the filesystem before 
> continuing with normal e2fsck processing. After the journal has been 
> applied, a filesystem will normally
> be marked as clean. Hence, for ext3 filesystems, e2fsck will normally 
> run the journal and exit, unless its superblock indicates that further 
> checking is required.
> 
> device is the device file where the filesystem is stored (e.g. /dev/hdc1).
> 
> Note that in general it is not safe to run e2fsck on mounted 
> filesystems. The only exception is if the -n option is specified, and 
> -c, -l, or -L options are not specified.
> However, even if it is safe to do so, the results printed by e2fsck are 
> not valid if the filesystem is mounted. If e2fsck asks whether or not 
> you should check a filesystem
> which is mounted, the only correct answer is ‘‘no’’. Only experts who 
> really know what they are doing should consider answering this question 
> in any other way.
> 
> 
> 73 = Best Regards,
> -Geoff/W5OMR
> 
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