[Freemint-list] fsck.sh, progress.. or well any output?

[Peter Slegg]

Running fscheck from the command line reveals errors:

bash-4.3# /c/mint/bin/sh /c/mint/bin/fscheck.sh

Checking filesystem on drive h.
Invalid non-numeric argument to -C ("-")


Checking filesystem on drive n.
Invalid non-numeric argument to -C ("-")


this is coming from:

    for drv in $ext2drives; do
        echo; echo "Checking filesystem on drive $drv."
        fsck.ext2 -p -C - $drv:
        r=$?
        if [ $r -ge 2 ]; then
            echo
            echo "Warning: e2fsck FAILED ($r)"
            echo "         Starting single user shell. Fix the"
            echo "         filesystem on drive $drv by running fsck.ext2"
            echo "         and REBOOT!"
            echo
            sh -si < /dev/console > /dev/console 2>&1
        fi
    done



Digging deeper, this doesn't look right:

bash-4.3# fsck.ext2 -p -C - n
Invalid non-numeric argument to -C ("-")


So I tried lots of alternatives like this:

bash-4.3# fsck.ext2 -p -C n
Invalid non-numeric argument to -C ("n")

bash-4.3# fsck.ext2 -p -C /n
Invalid non-numeric argument to -C ("/n")

bash-4.3# fsck.ext2 -p -C n:
Invalid non-numeric argument to -C ("n:")


I am missing something here. What should the fsck command arguments be ?


bash-4.3# fsck.ext2
Usage: fsck.ext2 [-panyrcdfvtDFV] [-b superblock] [-B blocksize]
                [-I inode_buffer_blocks] [-P process_inode_size]
                [-l¦-L bad_blocks_file] [-C fd] [-j external_journal]
                [-E extended-options] device


Regards,

Peter




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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 20:43:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: Peter Slegg <p.slegg at scubadivers.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Freemint-list] fsck.sh, progress.. or well any output?
To: <freemint-list at atariforge.org>
Message-ID: <0009bd97.01efd4902384 at smtp.freeola.net>
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 15:50:44 -0600
> From: Jason Fergus <leech at thefnords.org>
> Subject: fsck.sh, progress.. or well any output?
> To: freemint-list at mail.atariforge.org
>
> Started off with EasyMiNT as the base install.  But I've never been able to get fscheck.sh to show
> what it's doing.  Seems with the options that it should, (-p -C 0 $drv, where there is a for loop
> for $drv to find all the ext2 formatted partitions.
>
> I've tried  with calling e2fsck, or fsck.ext2 from within the script, the latter of which says that
> I'm trying to pass too many arguments and then prints out a single #, then I believe does a disk
> check.
>
> Unfortunately I think the disk checks are taking about 3-4 hours, and I'd like a progress bar to
> work.
>
> Is this something that just isn't supported, or is it that I'm missing a proper console device?
>
>


My Milan hasn't done a boot hd check in ages, I wonder if I broke the config
in some way ? There are quite a few ways to break it.


fstab looks ok:

c  /  dos   root  wheel 700
d  /  dos   root  wheel 700
e  /  dos   root  wheel 700
f  /  dos   root  wheel 700
g  /  dos   root  wheel 700
h  /  ext2  root  wheel 777
i  /  dos   root  wheel 700
j  /  dos   root  wheel 700
k  /  dos   root  wheel 700
l  /  dos   root  wheel 700
m  /  dos   root  wheel 700
n  /  ext2  root  wheel 777


mint.cnf
# Filesystemcheck (mandatory)
exec u:\c\mint\bin\sh u:\c\mint\bin\fscheck.sh
echo

- snip

INIT=u:\sbin\init              # this executes script /etc/rc.d/rc


rc hasn't changed since 2009


Any suggestions ?

Regards,

Peter