Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:44:31 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: e2fsck bogus message |
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On Oct 31, 2001 12:43 +0000, vda wrote: > e2fsck complains "Your /etc/fstab does not contain the fsck > passno field..." when there are no entries in /etc/fstab. > This message is bogus in this case. > > Why I don't have any entries? > I refer to my root fs as /dev/root (thanks to devfs) > and I have nothing else to mount yet.
Actually it is NOT a bogus complaint. If you don't have root in /etc/fstab, then it will never be checked by fsck. You still need something like:
/dev/root / ext2 defaults 1 1
Also, this is NOT a kernel problem, so it shouldn't be reported to this list.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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