On 2022-09-01 22:51 +0100, Mike wrote:
> A long time, maybe 11 years ago, I built a NAS box based around comodity
> hardware and the Debian of the day. It's currently been through several
> apt-get dist-upgrades and currently running Debian 11 with loads of old
> config grandfathered into it.
>
> It's a server, so runs 24x7 but every few months or so falls on its
> arse. Periodically it wants to fsck the disks, either because they've
> gone 20 mounts or so without a fsck or more often because they've gone
> however many days it is without a fsck.
>
> This I can live with. I can even live with the fact that with several
> TB file systems and quite a few files, the processs takes around fuor
> hours. I'd just be nice to have some progress reported. While it
> managed to spit details of any file system errors that have been found
> and corrected, other than that it sits there utterly silent. For hours.
> I can see that it's doing something as 1) it's expected behaviour and 2)
> I can see the disk light solid on. Nevertheless, it would be nice to
> see the progress bar indicting how it was getting along.
>
> Does aoyone have any idea how to enable this? I have no idea where to
> look. I've had several attempts at finding the answer with a well-known
> Internet search engine but while I've found many similar questions and
> even sometimes the same one as I'm asking but so far an answer has
> proved illusive.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for a solution or indeed where one may
> look for one?
You probably want "ShowStatus=auto" in the [Manager] section of
/etc/systemd/system.conf, or boot with the "systemd.show_status=auto"
option. See the systemd manpage:
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| KERNEL COMMAND LINE
| [...]
| systemd.show_status
| Takes a boolean argument or the constants error and auto. Can
| be also specified without an argument, with the same effect as
| a positive boolean. If enabled, the systemd manager (PID 1)
| shows terse service status updates on the console during
| bootup. With error, only messages about failures are shown,
| but boot is otherwise quiet. auto behaves like false until
| there is a significant delay in boot. Defaults to enabled,
| unless quiet is passed as kernel command line option, in which
| case it defaults to error. If specified overrides the system
| manager configuration file option ShowStatus=, see systemd-
| system.conf(5).
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Cheers,
Sven
