Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:03:46 -0600 | | From | Richard Gooch <> | | Subject | Re: fsck root fs: fsck, devfs, /proc/mounts miscooperate. |
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Andreas Dilger writes: > On Aug 29, 2001 15:14 +0300, VDA wrote: > > Installed e2fsprogs 1.23. It does not print warning now on > > "fsck /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1" > > However, it still cannot fs check root fs when given "fsck /" which I > > really need in my init script. Now the only way to do root fs check > > for me is to parse /proc/mounts and extract mount point for / via sed > > (I have never used sed yet...). > > > > # fsck / > > Parallelizing fsck version 1.15 (18-Jul-1999) > > e2fsck 1.15, 18-Jul-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > > /sbin/e2fsck: Is a directory while trying to open / > > That's because "/" is a directory and not a device. fsck works with > devices. If you want to avoid specifying your root partition in > /etc/fstab explicitly, then you can use an ext2 label instead. Set > the label on the filesystem with "tune2fs -L root <root_dev>", and > then put "LABEL=root" in /etc/fstab instead of a device name. This > way if your root device gets moved around you are still OK. This of > course works with filesystems other than root as long as they are > ext2/ext3/xfs (reiserfs does not have labels yet).
/dev/root works regardless of filesystem type :-)
Regards,
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