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cuihao

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Registered: 2011-03-19

Posts: 27

reiserfs with external journal cannot be fsck-ed automatically

(forgive my poor English. I'm not native)

I made /home and /var reiserfs with external journal on separate drive, in order to reduce disk load (according to wiki). When I mount them, no special parameter is needed and system will find the journal partitions correctly.

However, when the partitions reaches max mount counts and need fsck, reiserfsck cannot find the journal partitions. Then boot process is stopped at runlevel 1.

Error message like this:

reiserfs_open_journal: journal parameters from the super block does not match 
to journal parameters from the journal. You should run  reiserfsck with --rebuild-sb to check your superblock consistency.

I have to check them manually with "reiserfsck /dev/sdbX -j /dev/sdaY" to fix it.

my fstab entry:

/dev/sdb2 /var reiserfs defaults,noatime,notail 0 2
/dev/sdb3 /home reiserfs defaults,noatime,notail 0 2

Shall I add any special option to fstab? I don't want to turn off automatical fsck.

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Forgive my poor English. I am a senior student from China.