Ext3 users - Jan 2001 - weirdness on powerfail

I had a power-fail this morning, and when I rebooted, /etc/rc.d/rc.boot
issued a 'mount -n -o remount,ro /' and then a 'fsck -A -V -a
-C'. The
fsck failed on my root partition. I know why it failed. It called
fsck.ext2 . My root poartition is ext3. My question is, why did it call
fsck.ext2? Another question, why was it checked at all? My /etc/fstab
contains:
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,check=none 0 0

What's going on here?
--
Douglas J. Hunley (Linux User #174778)
http://hunley.homeip.net/			http://hunley.epinions.com/
		   http://www.thesatorieffect.com/

"This may seem a bit weird, but that's okay, because it is weird."

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:19:38AM -0500, Douglas J. Hunley
wrote:
> I had a power-fail this morning, and when I rebooted, /etc/rc.d/rc.boot
> issued a 'mount -n -o remount,ro /' and then a 'fsck -A -V -a
-C'. The
> fsck failed on my root partition. I know why it failed. It called
> fsck.ext2 . My root poartition is ext3. My question is, why did it call
> fsck.ext2? Another question, why was it checked at all? My /etc/fstab
> contains:
> /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,check=none 0 0
> What's going on here?
I have no idea.  Which version of e2fsprogs and ext3 are you using?
"fsck" should work quite happily, because fsck.ext2 should point to
the main e2fsck binary, which understands ext3 filesystems.

You'd have to include more details about what went wrong for me to
help much more.

Cheers,
 Stephen

It may have been checked due to "Max mount counts" or "Interval
between
checks" bits set in the filesystem itself.  What version of e2fs utils are
you using in this case?

You can do 'dumpe2fs -h <rootfs_device> | less' and note the max
mount
count and check interval fields.  No matter what, checks will be performed
via fsck if either of these fields reaches a valid state, ie. it's been
more than a month since last fsck, etc.

These two fields can be altered via the tune2fs command.

Hope that helps clear things up for you. :)

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Douglas J. Hunley wrote:
> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:19:38 -0500
> From: Douglas J. Hunley <root@hunley.homeip.net>
> Reply-To: ext3-users@redhat.com
> To: ext3 <ext3-users@redhat.com>
> Subject: weirdness on powerfail
>
> I had a power-fail this morning, and when I rebooted, /etc/rc.d/rc.boot
> issued a 'mount -n -o remount,ro /' and then a 'fsck -A -V -a
-C'. The
> fsck failed on my root partition. I know why it failed. It called
> fsck.ext2 . My root poartition is ext3. My question is, why did it call
> fsck.ext2? Another question, why was it checked at all? My /etc/fstab
> contains:
> /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,check=none 0 0
>
> What's going on here?
> --
> Douglas J. Hunley (Linux User #174778)
> http://hunley.homeip.net/			http://hunley.epinions.com/
> 		   http://www.thesatorieffect.com/
>
> "This may seem a bit weird, but that's okay, because it is
weird."
>
>
>
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