hi, I am working on a file system related project. I want to know whether the fsck utility for ext3 reads data blocks (storing user files,etc) at any stage? thankin you, amol __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
> I want to know whether the fsck utility for ext3 > reads data blocks (storing user files,etc) at any > stage?Only if you tell it to check for bad blocks. Joseph D. Wagner
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:55:47AM -0700, amol surati wrote:> > I am working on a file system related project. > I want to know whether the fsck utility for ext3 > reads data blocks (storing user files,etc) at any > stage? >E2fsck will read data blocks for directory inodes and symbolic links where the target of the symlink is greater than 60 bytes. - Ted