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Topic: About the checkfs cheatcode, and it's ad in F3 boot screen

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curaga

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Posted: June 20 2007,09:17

When I first tried it, it seemed great. But it just went to starting runlevel 2, and instantly rebooted with lots of errors about nonexistent icons (that obviously haven't been created since it wasn't going to runlevel 5)

By checking the scripts I saw it will only check ext2 (I had ext3).

By saying "checks unmounted filesystems" in isolinux F3 page people assume it will check them all. So I propose changing it to "checks unmounted ext2 filesystems" for clarity.

Also it should be made to skip those shutdown time icon checks, but that's not too important..

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Posted: June 20 2007,11:22

This is perhaps something that comes from Knoppix rather than DSL - now that I have a USB boot working with ext2 and also a frugal hd installation, I would like to be able to use this boot code. Whilst it's not a big deal to boot from another USB on my laptop and use fsck.ext2 on the USB stick, it is entirely another matter on the hd install where the only alternative boot device is a floppy

curaga

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Posted: June 20 2007,11:57

It's a DSL addon, since it isn't in any Knoppix and it is checked in dsl-config..

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Posted: June 20 2007,14:13

DSL is designed primarily as a nomadic live CD or frugally installed system. The bulk of dsl-config is to support such environment. The checkfs was not designed for a traditional hard drive installation.

It should not even be needed in that case. It should be controlled via fstab and booting with nofstab. When used for which it was designed there is no icon check errors as such is controlled by the existence of the /KNOPPIX directory which does not exist in a hard drive installation.

There is limited ext3 support in the traditional hard drive install script. Other than that, ext3 is not the filesystem typically used. Isn't the purpose of using ext3 is to avoid the typically forced filesystem checks?

I do not typically run traditional hard drive installations. I do use the checkfs on my frugals without issues.

Regarding pendrives: Typically they are not ext2 either.

curaga

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Posted: June 20 2007,15:16

Sorry, I forgot to mention I was using the livecd to repair another linux system, not a DSL HD-install.
It's an unmodified 3.2 livecd. Thus those errors aren't from HD install..

And ext3 can need fsck'in once in a while (I had a blackout.. It restored fine, but told it couldn't fsck fully)

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