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From: grossman@star-trek.bbn.com (Martin Grossman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Hard shoelace/fsck question
Keywords: fsck, shoelace
Message-ID: <6930@archive.BBN.COM>
Date: 8 Jun 91 13:38:51 GMT
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I've been trying without any sucsess to have showlace fsck all my partitions.

Goal:
	Before booting up I want to fsck all my minix partitions.

DONE:
	Once shoelace is up I hit a space very fast.  This leaves me at the
	shoelace boot prompt '>'.   I then type "configure -d /etc/config".
	I then type "fsck" and then if there are errors, I type "fsck -r".
	This cleans my root filesystem (only once in over 200 boots did I
	realy have to use the "-r" option.)  I've tried useing setenv and
	setdev on "bootdev", and "rootdev" to various values but can't get
	fsck to check anything but my root partition.

SETUP:
	IBM 386-33 clone (AMI bios) (8MB mem)
	A= 1.2MB
	B= 1.44MB
	C= 124MB IDE
		32MB DOS C partition	(default shoelace boot partition)
		52MB DOS Logical partition split into D=32MB and E=20MB
		8MB MINIX /
		32MB MINIX /usr
		1MB MINIX /tmp (ie /dev/ram)

fsck runs fine on /dev/hd3 (ie root) but I can't get it to run on /dev/hd4!!!

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