[Freemint-list] dosfsck which marks filesystem clean? (Miro Krop??ek)

[Peter Slegg]

>
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 08:48:21 +1000
> From: Miro Krop??ek <miro.kropacek at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Freemint-list] dosfsck which marks filesystem clean?
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> 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.
>

I always assumed that it was marked as dirty until a clean shutdown marks
it as clean. So that any unexpected power off leaves it marked as dirty
and it is checked at the next start.


Peter