On Tuesday 08 June 2004 09:06 pm, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > if ! (fsck -n /dev/hdb2); then
>
> - i've never seen the -n option for fdisk ..
That's 'cuz it's fsck, not fdisk. :P
Ah. Actually, you could be onto something there. I call fsck in the script,
relying on it to pass on control to e2fsck, but I read man e2fsck to come up
with that option:
-n Open the filesystem read-only, and assume an answer of `no' to all
questions. Allows e2fsck to be used non-interactively. (Note: if
the -c, -l, or -L options are specified in addition to the -n option,
then the filesystem will be opened read-write, to permit the
bad-blocks list to be updated. However, no other changes will be
made to the filesystem.)
So I should swap fsck for e2fsck for starters.
> fsck 2.35 seems awfully old ... i use v2.12 and even 4yr old boxes
> are runing fsck-2.9 or fsck-2.1
> ( something seems whacky with the versions )
Must be. I'm up to date as of a couple days ago. Sarge.
->/sbin/fsck --version
fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
->dpkg -l|grep e2fsprogs
ii e2fsprogs 1.35-6 The EXT2 file system utilities and libraries
->apt-cache showpkg e2fsprogs
Package: e2fsprogs
Versions:
1.35-6
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.belnet.be_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages)
(/var/lib/dpkg/status)
> - if it's a mounted system ... fdisk should always fail ..
> fsck'ing a mounted partition is a bad thing
It isn't mounted normally. It isn't mounted before fscking it.
> - if you umounted it before fdisk'ing than
> you should be able to fdisk it and
> you should NOT get that mesage about auto-fscking it
> after 42 mounts
No, I shouldn't. Especially since all 42 reports are completely uneventful
runs. The "-n" option is supposed to keep it from doing anything without
asking me, and presumably if there ever *is* a problem, I'll see it the next
morning and can intervene manually.
> my guess is your script was not doing anything??
Maybe not. Maybe the -n option keeps it from showing that it has been fscked.
Must be some filesystem flag or something to show that, and in
non-interactive mode it writes nothing. I guess that means it writes
*nothing*.
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