Re: ext2 fs not properly updated upon dismount.

George (greerga@nidhogg.ham.muohio.edu)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:40:42 -0400 (EDT)


On 16 Jun 1998, Anders Melchiorsen wrote:

>dwguest@win.tue.nl (Guest section DW) writes:
>
>> > I believe the partition type should be 82 (Linux swap).
>>
>> NOTHING in the kernel should depend on a partition type.
>
>I think it is reasonable to assume that fsck will get confused if a
>swap partition is marked as containing an ext2 file system.

I doubt he has that partition in his /etc/fstab as ext2 or that he's
explicitly running fsck on it. So fsck won't be running on the swap
partition, he had problems with the root filesystem remember?

-George

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