coverup Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 I see this message appearing at the very beginning of the boot process: Sep 12 21:27:08 mylaptop kernel: EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended My linux partitions are all ext3, and I also have NTFS and VFAT32 partitions. Do I need to take this seriously? My old laptop had ext2 partitions, it ran e2fsck on a regular basis, I wonder if journalized filesystems still require this kind of regular maintanence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 you actually set this in the fstab. Its one of those 'cryptic numbers' which is mounts before e2fsck ! I dont know for sure but I would imagine a check isnt going to hurt and the ext3 is built over ext2 anyway... without knowing the exact details ext3 is a journaled version of ext2 which means it knows what changes took place but it doesnt deal with odd errors... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted September 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 It's a laptop, so the number of mounts is exceeded fairly quickly... I don't think there are any odd errors. The laptop does hang sometimes (thanks, ATI!), and the journal recovers every time without a hitch. Now my question is: Ok, I'll check ext3 partitions... Do I have to check NTFS and VFAT windows partitions as well? I can't afford to fry them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 It's a laptop, so the number of mounts is exceeded fairly quickly... I don't think there are any odd errors. The laptop does hang sometimes (thanks, ATI!), and the journal recovers every time without a hitch. Now my question is: Ok, I'll check ext3 partitions... Do I have to check NTFS and VFAT windows partitions as well? I can't afford to fry them. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I dont think you can from in linux and even if you can then Id recommend doing this from inside the native OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted September 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 It's a laptop, so the number of mounts is exceeded fairly quickly... I don't think there are any odd errors. The laptop does hang sometimes (thanks, ATI!), and the journal recovers every time without a hitch. Now my question is: Ok, I'll check ext3 partitions... Do I have to check NTFS and VFAT windows partitions as well? I can't afford to fry them. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I dont think you can from in linux and even if you can then Id recommend doing this from inside the native OS. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Actually, I don't want to check those partitions. Ok, I forced check with shutdown -F now. Next time I boot, I see the filesystems being checked (ntfs, vfat partitions are not - that's good). Then, tune2fs /dev/hda5 (and other partitions) shows that the filesystem has been checked. But since the Maximum mount count is set to -1, I suspect, the message about reaching checktime will continue to reappear. It's a bit alarming to see tune2fs showing that some partitions contain orphan inodes. Do I have to worry about this? Also, some partitions have 5.1% non-contiguous files. What are non-contiguous files/blocks? Will the space between them be eventually filled, or is that harddrive real estate lost forever? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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