[Bug 59293] Re: Dosfsck Run On Every Boot on FAT

[Jason Spiro]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 48806 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48806

> B) I suggest that dosfsck should not check a clean filesystem unless
> someone passes a "force" command-line parameter.

On second thought, this would be foolish.  Dosfsck can never know for
sure that a filesystem is truly clean; perhaps it was recently mounted
by a smartphone which failed to set the dirty flag.

Instead:

C) A new "express" option should be added to dosfsck.  When the "express" option is used, dosfsck should do the following.  If a filesystem's dirty flag is set, dosfsck should check the filesystem.  If the flag is unset, the filesystem is probably clean; dosfsck should do nothing.
D) When the OS runs dosfsck at startup, it should use the "express" option.

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Title:
  Dosfsck Run On Every Boot on FAT

Status in “dosfstools” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Whenever I book into my Ubuntu system, dosfsck is run on my FAT32
  windows partition.  This step makes my boot sequence very long.  Is
  this fsck on every boot really neccessary?  Perhaps it should be run
  after a certain amount of mounts or a certain number of days.

  This occurs in both Dapper and Edgy.

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