[plug] Filesystems

[Daniel Pearson]

Mark,
What about if the filesystem is mounted, is it possible? Or do you have to
force it to do it on reboot?

Cheers,
Daniel

----- Original Message -----
From: <levsky at rave.iinet.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Filesystems


> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:19:53PM +0800, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> > Once an install and format of the partition, etc.. has been done, how
can
> > you tell what file system its using (assuming you're dealing with
someone
> > else's machine and they have no idea if they selected ext2 or ext3 :) ?
>
> cat /etc/mtab
>
> > Also, assuming you're using ext3, whats the best way to go about doing
an
> > integrity check? Just use fsck, or will some switches need to be added?
>
> If you've got the filesystem unmounted then yep, e2fsck will do the job.
>
> Cheers
>
> mark
>
> --
> Old MacDonald had a form
> e_i ^ e_i = 0
>
>
>