controlling on-boot fsck on improperly unmounted partitions

Willy K. Hamra w.hamra1987 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 20:23:07 UTC 2009


hi, it is very frequent that i might lose power, accidentally do
something wrong, well... crap happens and my kubuntu session doesn't get
properly shut down.
upon boot, fsck detects this, detects the weird errors, i get dropped to
a maintenance shell asking me to run fsck manually with no -a or -p options.
naturally, i am not going to run "fsck /dev/sdc1" and go through all the
choices which i really have no control on anyways. a corrupted file is
corupted, a repairable file is repairable. so i do "fsck /dev/sdc1 -y",
to let it answer yes on all questions to be asked.
is there anyway to let fsck do this automatically? i mean other than
running fsck on the disk, what else the user would do? so it's pointless
to drop me to such a shell.
the other thing is, this is not very user-friendly. i can't imagine
unexperienced users running a manual fsck, or worse, answering the
million questions fsck is going to ask.
-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: w_hamra1987.vcf
Type: text/x-vcard
Size: 130 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/attachments/20091001/9929358c/attachment.vcf>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 260 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/attachments/20091001/9929358c/attachment.sig>


More information about the kubuntu-users mailing list