On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeff Mickey writes: >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:45, Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I'm also using ext3 and I'm talking about the file-system check which >>> takes after every n days or n mounts during boot-up. It is not showing >>> any status of file-system check. Are you getting any progress-bar during >>> the file-system check ? If yes, what changes you made to get that. >>> >>> Thanks >>> -- >>> Ashish SHUKLA > >> if [ -x /sbin/fsck ]; then >> stat_busy "Checking Filesystems" >> if /bin/grep -qw quiet /proc/cmdline; then >> /sbin/fsck -A -T -C -a -t $NETFS $FORCEFSCK >/dev/null 2>&1 >> else >> /sbin/fsck -A -T -C -a -t $NETFS $FORCEFSCK 2>/dev/null >> fi > >> line 245..251 in /etc/rc.sysinit > >> fsck is running with -C which means it will display progress bars as >> long as your fsck.* supports it. I know ext2 and 3 do, I'm not sure >> about the others. You need to check your /etc/fstab to see if you've >> turned off fs checks, and confirm you are actually using ext3. > > Thanks for the hint. I guess it is due to the 'quiet' option passed to > the kernel during boot-up, which causes stdout and stderr to redirect to > /dev/null. I'll verify it the next time I reboot. > > Thanks :) > -- > Ashish SHUKLA > It is because of it, indeed. I was also puzzled by the fact that in some boxes there was progress status and other boxes wasn't. I think I will change the rc.sysinit to the old behaviour, because I don't want the kernel loading messages and want the fsck progress bars. :) -- ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto ------------------------------------------- Emo Philips - "I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator."
