oneiric: progress status during boot-time fsck?

[Nils Kassube]

D. R. Evans wrote:
> Nils Kassube said the following at 04/12/2012 10:40 AM :
> > Well, I don't really care about the fsck progress messages myself
> > but I just had a quick look at the init scripts. If I understand
> > it correctly, the program /sbin/mountall needs a change to add the
> > extra option "-C 0" to the fsck call. But this is only a pointer
> > where to look, I didn't test anything.
> 
> I suspect that should be "-C 1", since I think stdout has the file
> descriptor 1 (0 is stdin, I believe).

Yes, stdout is 1. From "man e2fsck":

| -C fd
[...]
|   If the file descriptor specified is 0, e2fsck will print a
|   completion bar as it goes about its business. This requires that
|   e2fsck is running on a video console or terminal.

That's why I suggested "-C 0". I would expect the output to go to a 
video console, if you have no "splash" option for the kernel command 
line.


Nils