fsck with noauto

[Jorge Almeida]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> On 2/26/2011 3:17 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>>
>> I have an external IDE disk, used for
>> backups. It has two partitions with ext2 fs.
>
> As an aside to your actual question, if you could convert it to ext4 lots of
> things are easier. fsck is almost instantaneous and seems rarely needed.
>
> Just an idea, if it's an option in this case.
>
Nope. I have ext3 in my "normal" partitions, but for the backup
partitions I use plain ext2. The probability of corruption is small
and I'd rather not waste disk space. As for ext4, I didn't figure it
out yet. I read some contradictory comments in the net and I prefer to
pass until it is more widely used.

As my backup disk is normally turned off, backups require human
intervention anyway, so using a script to check-then-mount is a
negligible inconvenience, assuming I can find out what the appropriate
checking command is.

Cheers

Jorge