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Do you shut the system down, or just switch off or press reboot?
If you run (as or su root) "/sbin/shutdown -ht3 now" you will shut the
system down properly and running e2fsck should not be needed.
Geoff
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Bob Snyder wrote:
> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 23:18:12 -0500 (EST)
> From: Bob Snyder <klrfuvqc.qkwzq@matrakshin.com>
> To: robby <giu@iba.by>
> Cc: "vkuuzypr.ufubfpl@oktokon.fi" <pizqq.sahnxst@saratogaschools.org>
> Subject: Re: Creating another ext2 storage
>
> This is a question probably better suited for
> tyhss@bancoreal.com.br. I would suggest joining that list and
> asking there, as there's not any real relavence to linux-hams.
>
> Having said that, if you are mounting the filesystem, do you have a swap
> file on it, or are you trying to have it mounted, and also listing it in
> the fstab as a swap partition, which won't work.
>
> Bob N2KGO
>
> On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, robby wrote:
>
> > Having my redhat installed, I put additional hard drive on /dev/hdb2,
> > while my original root / on hda3.
> > I intend to make use the hdb2 as my storage, and maybe sort of virtual
> > memory. Why? because I am
> > experimenting Wine, a windows emulator latest version jan 1999.
> > I noticed that running a big app like ms-project, or winword 97, eats up
> > my resources quite heavily.
> >
> > So I decided to add new drive, which I already partition (primary), and
> > mkfs the /dev/hdb2.
> > despite that I just put only few files on the partition, I am frequently
> > told to do e2fsck...
> >
> > Wonder what I did right, or wrong. Need suggestion pse.
> >
> > robby
> >
> >
>
>
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Geoff Blake wvez@issauvel.cz linux 2.0.31
Chelmsford nbuomn@roskapostia.tunk.net i586
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