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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