Grant:

> Well, I switched my laptop to EXT3 about 2 months ago.  I had a 
> non-clean shutdown (the battery fell out) and when I rebooted, it did a 
> nice long FSCK on the EXT3 file system.  I though the whole point of a 
> JFS was to avoid the FSCK.  What did I do wrong?

The only thing I can think of is that your fstab points to ext2  for
the filesystem type.  A clean ext3 filesystem can be mounted as ext2
with no problems, and you might never know unless you did some close
examinations.

A dirty ext3 filesystem can be mounted as ext3 with no_delay, but
a dirty ext3 filesystem needs a fsck before it can be mounted as
ext2.

Check your /etc/fstab, the initrd initial ramdisk image, etc. for the
root filesystem being mounted as ext3 like you think it should be.
There is a place in the initrd (the linuxrc script I think) where it
mounts the root filesystem as a specified type - no autodetect is
supported.  (This caused me problems when I tried to make bootable
CD's with the root filesystem is iso9660, but the initrd was coded
to mount the root as ext2/whatever.)

Hope this helps.

Caveat: I should have added "I think" to most of the claims above.
Don't take my writing as Truth.

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