[Tfug] e2fsck question

[Jim Secan]

At 04:11 PM 6/13/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>I had the same problem a few months ago with an external 100GB drive for 
>backup storage. I made the mistake of doing EXT2 on it and having it 
>automount at boot time... then the UPS on the server died during a power 
>surge killing power... The people in the office plugged the server into 
>regular power, but then called 1/2 hour later when the server "wouldn't 
>boot". In fact, it was still trying to e2fsck that stupid drive... only got 
>about 5% of the way in that time. Took me a while to figure out what was 
>going on... (they kept saying the red light on the drive was on solid..
whihc 
>I was thinking meant it was toast). Ahh... the fun of walking someone 
>100miles away thru editing fstab with vi.

I feel ever so much better now.  I guess this is going to run all night.
Are there any reasonable alternatives to e2fsck?  This is an ext3 drive.

Jim
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