[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48806
Title:
vfat filesystems should not be fscked
Status in sysvinit package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
Expired
Status in sysvinit package in Baltix:
Invalid
Bug description:
The test system had a 25 GB Windows XP FAT32 partition and a 140 GB FAT32
data partition in the extended partition. Moreover, it had two Kubuntu
partitions:
/ 15 Gb - ext3
Swap 512 MB
Kubuntu installer automatically mounts FAT-32 partitions as writeable. Then
when the system boots, it runs dosfsck, which detects non-existent bugs in the
FAT-32 and attempts to fix them by truncating files! This corrupts FAT-32!!!
The users can lose multiple files!!!
Moreover, if the user makes the partition non-writeable, dosfsck is not even
aware of this, and still attempts to fix non-existent bugs, and the system
always hangs during the boot process!
1. The auto-mounted Windows partitions should be read-only (non-writeable.)
2. dosfsck should not be allowed to make ANY changes to FAT32 without user
permission.
3. dosfschk should be completely disabled until it is fixed. Currently, it
finds numerous errors even when they do NOT exist and then corrupts FAT32 when
it truncates numerous files. It does the same "fix" every time you run Kubuntu.
4. If the mounted paritition is read-only (non-writeable), dosfsck should not
even run.
Currently, it always runs and then the system hangs if the partition is
read-only.
5. If the mount is changed to non-writeable, even if you reinstall Kubuntu,
the system will hang when dosfsck runs during the boot process.
Primum non nocere (First do no harm)!
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