Re: [MiNT] fscheck.sh

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 15:17:57 , maanke <makehr@ndh.net> wrote:
>
> It occurs also on a milan, but I have found the issue, it was in the
> fscheck.sh script.
>
>
> Am 21.12.2014 um 11:46 schrieb Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>:
>
> > On fr., 2014-12-19 at 17:33 +0100, M.A. Kehr wrote:
> >
> >> This works without problems with the old e2fsck 1.27 from rpm
> archive.
> >> I now have installed the new e2fsck ports of Vincent and it does not
> work anymore. On boot I only get a message that the filesystem has to be
> checked but the checking is not made. It boots anyway.
> >
> > On what system is this? On the Firebee (running FireTOS) there is a
> > similar problem, where e2fsck claims that the filesystem is dirty. But
> > in this case the check is run.
> >
> > The old e2fsck doesn't work on my Firebee, it does not recognise the
> > ext2-partitions that's initialized on Linux.
> >
> > Jo Even
> >

I scanned through the e2fs forum discussion the other day and I noticed
that one suggestion to improve the boot-time disk checks was to auto-detect
the e2fs partitions instead of relying on fstab which could be wrong if
you swap hard disks.

I asked about something similar a few years ago.

How could this be done in fscheck.sh  ?


Peter