Re: Added a partition, but...

[Gordon Messmer <yinyang eburg com>]

M. Neidorff wrote:
> I added a partition to my red-hat installation (ran out of room).  It went
> very smoothly, but when I had a reset recently, I noticed that fsck was not
> run on the new partition.  When it mounted, I got an error saying that is
> was dangerout to mount an un-fsck-ed partition. Well, it was easy to umount
> it, run fsck, and then mount it again, but my question is where does the
> partition have to be listed in order to get the automatic fsck check?
> FWIW, the partition is listed in my fstab.

The last item in the fstab entry specifies when the partition is
fsck'ed.
e.g.:
/dev/hda5                 /mnt/storage           ext2   defaults 1 2
<device>		 <mount point>		<type> <options> <dump><fsck order>
So hda5 is an ext2 filesystem that (can?/will?) be dumped and will be
fsck'ed second.

MSG

PS   Anyone have more information on HOW dump uses this field?