Warning message during the installation (JFS)

Support knowledgebase (jfs_root_73)
Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 7.3

Symptom

During a fresh installation, you have chosen to use the JFS file system for your root partition. After finishing the first installation stage and while booting into the freshly installed system with YaST2, you will see the following warning message:
Checking file systems...
fsck 1.24a (02-Sep-2001)

Cannot access file system description file to determine
mount status and file system type of /dev/hda3

WARNING!!!
Running fsck on a mounted file system
may cause SEVERE file system damage.

Do you really want to continue (y/n)?
In this case, the root partition is located on /dev/hda3. Of course, this partition number can be different in your case.

Cause

fsck.jfs attempts to determine the status of the mounted partitions by accessing the file /etc/mtab, which does not yet exist at this part of the installation.

Solution

This message can safely be ignored, everything is fine. Simply confirm that you want to continue by pressing "y" and the installation will proceed.
Keywords: JFS, ROOT PARTITON, CHECKING FILE SYSTEMS, INSTALLATION, DO YOU REALLY WANT TO CONTINUE

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