fsck.ext3 different?

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Wed Apr 20 08:19:57 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 10:06 +0200, Rajmund Krivec wrote:
> Is it possible that FC2 fsck.ext3 wrill not be able to verify
> the FC4 partitions, and therefore it will not be able to mount
> FC4 partitions into FC2? (Multiboot, cross mounting of user
> areas while transitioning).

yes fc2 fcsk will not understand some things that fc4 ext3 uses, like
online resizing preparations etc. the kernel ought to, but to actually
fsck a volume the requirements of understanding all bits are higher than
just being allowed to ignore a few things you don't understand....

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