Bug 17395 – checkfs progress indicator missing...

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Radek Podgorny 2003-03-12 14:56:36 UTC]

This is just an idea but people often get scared or bored (like me) when they
see no progress.

Unfortunately, this is exactly what happens when you boot your shiny Gentoo and
the filesystem checker tells you it's mount #20 and that the check is being
performed. In my opinion, it would bee far nicer to display the progress of the
whole process...

Radek Podgorny


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-03-12 15:23:05 UTC]

do you use ext2 ?
i think it's not supported in ext3, xfs or reiserfs

[Comment 2 Radek Podgorny 2003-03-12 15:36:54 UTC]

I use ext3... 
 
Anyway, even if it's not supported on ext3, I'm affraid there's no progress 
displayed during the ext2 check but I haven't tried it. Someone should take a look 
at it... 
 
Else, I'm really sorry... 
 
Radek 
 

[Comment 3 Arun Bhanu (RETIRED) 2003-03-13 09:02:49 UTC]

The two patches I'm attaching herewith should solve the problem. I've tested it with ext3. I don't have any machines running reiser or any other filesystems. 

first patch is against /etc/init.d/checkfs
second patch is against /etc/init.d/checkroot

Both are missing -C flag while doing fsck. Even though the man pages says -C works with ext2, i've checked that it works with ext3. For more info, man fsck.

[Comment 4 Arun Bhanu (RETIRED) 2003-03-13 09:05:47 UTC]

Created attachment 9341 [details, diff]
checkfs patch

patch against /etc/init.d/checkfs

[Comment 5 Arun Bhanu (RETIRED) 2003-03-13 09:07:30 UTC]

Created attachment 9342 [details, diff]
checkroot patch

patch against /etc/init.d/checkroot

[Comment 6 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-03-13 15:03:49 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13321 ***