Re: Fat32 support is still ALPHA

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 05:14 pm, Edward C. Bailey wrote:
> >>>>> "Greg" == Greg Goldstein <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Greg> I recently installed RH8.0 on my Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop, which is
> Greg> dual boot and I have 2 DOS drives mounted. I get this message on
> Greg> boot-up: checking filesystems - Fat32 support is still ALPHA.
>
> Greg> Has anyone experience with this message, are there ever any bad
> Greg> effects of alpha support?
>
> Let me guess:
>
>     o You have an entry in your /etc/fstab for a FAT filesystem of some
>       sort
>
>     o This entry has something other than zero in the last field
>
> Change that last field to a zero, and the message should go away.  The key
> to this is that the message you get refers to *checking* filesystems, not
> *using* them.
>
> The last field in /etc/fstab entries dictates when fsck should check the
> filesystem; since support for FAT filesystem checking is in an alpha state,
> you get the message.  Set the field to zero, and fsck will never attempt to
> check the filesystem, which means you'll never see that message again...
>
>                                 Ed


It worked! The line finished with 1, I changed it to zero and the message 
went away. 

thanks very much

Greg


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