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JulioMaranhao

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From: São José dos Campos, São Paulo

Registered: 2006-05-10

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0.7.2 CD's fsck.ext3 ???

I thought that fsck.ext3 was in the 0.7.2 CD to make a check on an ext3 fs. Why is it not available?

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: 0.7.2 CD's fsck.ext3 ???

Because it's a symlink to e2fsck?

codemac

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Registered: 2005-05-13

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Re: 0.7.2 CD's fsck.ext3 ???

I would make the symlink, I think it knows which fsck.whatever by the filename referencing the binary.

Is it really not there?

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neotuli

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Registered: 2004-07-06

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Re: 0.7.2 CD's fsck.ext3 ???

just use e2fsck, it knows it's actually ext3 it's looking at and acts accordingly, despite the name. I just recovered quite a bit of data with it...

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JulioMaranhao

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From: São José dos Campos, São Paulo

Registered: 2006-05-10

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Re: 0.7.2 CD's fsck.ext3 ???

Because it's a symlink to e2fsck?

Not on my Gimmick installation:

[julio@juliocomp ~]$ ll /sbin/fsck.*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  11K 2005-10-28 16:21 /sbin/fsck.cramfs
-rwxr-xr-x  3 root root 672K 2005-12-31 11:28 /sbin/fsck.ext2
-rwxr-xr-x  3 root root 672K 2005-12-31 11:28 /sbin/fsck.ext3
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  22K 2005-10-28 16:21 /sbin/fsck.minix
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    7 2006-05-02 10:20 /sbin/fsck.msdos -> dosfsck
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   10 2006-05-02 09:39 /sbin/fsck.reiserfs -> reiserfsck
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 503K 2005-12-31 11:28 /sbin/fsck.static
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    7 2006-05-02 10:20 /sbin/fsck.vfat -> dosfsck

JulioMaranhao

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From: São José dos Campos, São Paulo

Registered: 2006-05-10

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Re: 0.7.2 CD's fsck.ext3 ???

I would make the symlink, I think it knows which fsck.whatever by the filename referencing the binary.

Is it really not there?

I am talking only about the CD enviroment. I didn't used the 0.7.2 CD to install a system. My system was installed with a  0.7.1 CD some months ago and it's current (passed Gimmick milestone). Sorry about the confusion.

Maybe I need a live CD to maintain/repair my Arch system. Maybe the Arch CD has not that role (only install support).

neotuli

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Re: 0.7.2 CD's fsck.ext3 ???

The arch install cd does have a couple fsck's on it, so it's good for very minimal maintenance type stuff. A livecd is better for bigger chores though...

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damjan

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Registered: 2006-05-30

Posts: 454

Re: 0.7.2 CD's fsck.ext3 ???

Because it's a symlink to e2fsck?

Not on my Gimmick installation:

[julio@juliocomp ~]$ ll /sbin/fsck.*
-rwxr-xr-x  3 root root 672K 2005-12-31 11:28 /sbin/fsck.ext2
-rwxr-xr-x  3 root root 672K 2005-12-31 11:28 /sbin/fsck.ext3

It's a hardlink, see that "3" there before root, that file has 3 hard links linking ot it (three filenames). Probably the third is e2fsck.

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

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Re: 0.7.2 CD's fsck.ext3 ???

what's the other two?

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