[Freemint-list] dosfsck which marks filesystem clean?

[Alan Hourihane]

I think upgrading dosfstools is the right way.

Alan.


On 04/06/17 23:48, Miro Kropáček wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as mentioned
> <https://github.com/freemint/freemint/pull/42#issuecomment-306017872>
> in the fix for the fsck issue, during my experiments I have realised
> that the dosfstools package and its dosfsck actually doesn't mark file
> system as clean when finishes!
>
> It respects the flag (i.e. if not dirty -> end with "file system
> clean" message) but doesn't set it. To your knowledge is there any
> other (mint/unix/tos/whatever) tool which actually /does/ set this flag?
>
> Because right now it's a rather unsatisfactory situation, one time you
> forget to cleanly shutdown FreeMiNT (even without any Unix stuff) and
> for the rest of your life you're going to see the "unchecked fs,
> please use dosfsck" message.
>
> Of course, the right approach is to fix (or upgrade) the dosfstools
> package but it's not that easy, source code is .... rather hard to
> understand.
>
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>
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