Re: [MiNT] Easymint filesystem checks

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.org>]

On 1/12/11 2:31 PM, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> > How does Linux handle this ? Would it make sense to generate fstab during
> > boot ?
> I don't know how Linux handles this, but IMO the correct way to do this
> under MiNT is to write a small program that checks the partition type on
> all partitions and then run the correct fsck on each of them.
>
> Jo Even
Linux I believe uses fstab too.  It mounts the filesystem read only.  
After the check and everything is consistent it remounts in rw.  Since 
linux will run on a single ext2 partition, it needs to mount the 
partition to even load init, or the fsck binary or anything really.

Thanks,
Mark