Re: [MiNT] Easymint filesystem checks

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>]

> From: p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk
> Sent: 2012-11-05 14:39:07 CET
> To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] Easymint filesystem checks
> 
> I always find it a bit strange that while the disk knows what partitions are on it, I have
> to manually edit the fstab file. I did once suggest it could be generated automatically
> but would this work as a simpler solution ?

You are right, fstab is not necessary for this at all, it's just a hugely complex way of performing a rather simple task. A couple of years ago I wrote a small program in C that detected the partition type of each partition and ran the appropriate fs-checker on each of them. Unfortunately I never really finished it as it doesn't handle errors but just continues to the next partition. I posted it here:

http://sparemint.org/mailinglist/Mailing-Lists/MiNT-List.201101/1294959479.1833.56.camel@sterkenils.text

Jo Even