On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 06:34:39AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> My main motivation is that for years uses see
> "checking" messages at boot.
>
> On a dentist's bill at least "checking" is separate from "treating".
>
> So somehow the user should be more informed about what is going on.
>
> Else he wonders if all that Windows defragmentation is somehow
> unnecessary on Linux, and for years his disks have "passed with flying
> colors"... When if fact the dentist is doing more than just looking.
This is no different from Windows when it runs the CHKDSK program; it
says that it's checking the disk, but it's really checking and
repairing it. And none of this has anything to do with
defragmentation; it has to do with dealing with potentially corrupted
file systems after hardware failures/hiccups --- or if a USB thumb
drive is forcibly removed in the middle of a write operation, and the
flash translation's metadata is corrupted.
> I really have no idea.
>
> I just wish
> =====Checking... done===
> messages were more honest.
>
> I just don't like my dentist to say he only "checked" when he in fact
> plans to "check and maybe alter".
This message has nothing to do with the fsck man page or the
util-linux package..... that's really a matter of the system startup
scripts. But I'll note that the term "checking" has a very long
history, going back decandes for Linux, Unix, as well as in MS-DOS /
Windows --- so it's not even Linux / Unix.
- Ted
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