Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Jul 1999 09:42:41 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: (fwd) ext2 filesystem corruption, tool needed |
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On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 02:19:14AM +0200, Hermann Schichl wrote: > However, I want to make a suggestion: > By default ext2 ignores errors > in filesystems; I think that it would be preferable to make remount ro > or panic the default, since it will save people from losing too much > data when they are not big filesystem specialists. (yes I know you can > use tune2fs to change that, but who thinks about that when installing > distribution XY on his server?)
perhaps you should change from distribution XY?
/dev/sda3 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
is what Debian installs by default.
-- Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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