Bug#666460: define 'check' clearer

2012-04-02 Thread jidanni
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Bug#666460: define 'check' clearer

2012-04-02 Thread Ted Ts'o
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. > >

Bug#666460: define 'check' clearer

2012-04-01 Thread jidanni
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,

Bug#666460: define 'check' clearer

2012-04-01 Thread Ted Ts'o
One of the reasons why the fsck page is a little vague is that it's a front end progam which executes a file system specific checker program. These programs are not necessarily consistent in how they operate. The way e2fsck, which is the file system checker used for ext2, ext3, and ext4 (and so /

Bug#666460: define 'check' clearer

2012-04-01 Thread jidanni
> "TT" == Ted Ts'o writes: TT> The man page currently says: TT> "Fsck is used to check and optionally repair one or more Linux file TT> systems" TT> That's not technically correct since in actual practice is fsck with TT> no options will repair the file system. Ah ha! I would go fu

Bug#666460: define 'check' clearer

2012-04-01 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 06:39:35AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Package: util-linux > Version: 2.20.1-4 > Severity: wishlist > File: /usr/share/man/man8/fsck.8.gz > X-debbugs-cc: ty...@mit.edu > > The man page should say "by 'check' we mean that nothing will be altered > on the disk except

Bug#666460: define 'check' clearer

2012-03-30 Thread jidanni
Package: util-linux Version: 2.20.1-4 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man8/fsck.8.gz X-debbugs-cc: ty...@mit.edu The man page should say "by 'check' we mean that nothing will be altered on the disk except updating the mount tally. Anything more invasive we call 'repair'." Or something like