Re: [MiNT] fscheck.sh

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.org>]

The unix utility "blkid" seems to be able to identify the fs type.  From 
there you would just have to write a bash script to do the job.

Thanks,
Mark

On 12/21/2014 10:24 AM, Peter Slegg wrote:
> 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