On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:56:49AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 02:26:58PM +0200, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > > fsck -A output does not indicate the offending device(s), when a device is > > nonexistent and declared without nofail (e2fsck doesn't mention anything, > > and > > dosfsck outputs just "No such file or directory") > > Hmm... I'd like to be conservative with this kind of warnings. The > "nofail" option is relatively new and I guess that many people still > successfully rely on the old behavior (because e2fsck doesn't mention > anything ;-).
The motivation is that, currently, fsck bombs out during system boot without any hint (which, I hope you'll agree, is not helpful). A -V option won't make any difference for this use case. > I have applied the patch below -- it prints the warning if -V > (verbose) option is specified. ignore() is called multiple times per filesystem, so it's not the best place to put the warning, imho. -S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
