[Bug 85291] Re: filesystems are never fsck'ed if they live on removable USB disks

[Tommy Trussell]

@loke: surely everyone cares about a healthy file system, but the
problem is thorny. I see several blueprints to handle "ordinary"
filesystem fsck -- such as moving the fsck to shutdown, disabling fsck
on battery power, asking user if they want to schedule it, etc. None of
the ones I found seems to include a use case involving external drives.

@Andres Mujica: I just looked at the status of the PartitionManagement
spec and blueprint, and it has been marked as "superseded." Its use
cases also didn't include fsck on an external drive, so I think another
blueprint and spec needs to be created to handle this use case.

I just did a few searches on blueprints, and there was a lot of work (in
the Gutsy era) on handling a full filesystem situation, though from my
reading this apparently involved a full root filesystem. It was also
focused on making the system usable enough to recover from the full
filesystem situation on boot -- not a full filesystem being mounted on
an already active system.

What does modern Gnome do or say when you fill an external USB drive?
Does it put up a warning bubble? I believe it doesn't but I haven't
tried yet in Karmic. A process that watches for a full filesystem might
also watch for other important notices regarding filesystems. I think
someone proposed some dbus messages getting created to handle filesystem
fsck situations, and that would definitely be a place to look at.

I have an old PowerBook running Ubuntu 6.06.1 Dapper PowerPC running
XFCE and it pops up a warning whenever I mount a filesystem having less
than 10% free space. I haven't tried a damaged system that needs a fsck.
BUT I believe the full warning is an option in the file manager, or
maybe I activated a daemon for that. I don't remember -- I installed
that system a long time ago. ;-)

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filesystems are never fsck'ed if they live on removable USB disks
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