In the message dated: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:04:27 EST, The pithy ruminations from Bob Peterson on <Re: Feature Request: gfs_fsck has a yes to all response.> were : => ----- "Stewart Walters" <spods@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: => | Thanks Bob, but I was sort of hoping for an option of doing "yes to => | all" once How about: yes | gfs_fsck assuming that gfs_fsck reads from the STDIN filehandle, not just from the tty. => | => | Not to worry - Does anyone know what's going on with that weird 'Fix => | bitmap for => | block' number continually changing when you press the Enter key? Just guessing here...probably because there are multiple bitmaps that need fixing...as each on is fixed, the prompt shows the next one. => | I suppose this is a weird gfs_fsck display quirk when the response is => | not a 'y' => | or a 'n'. Interesting... Given the importance of *fsck, I'd hope that any character that is no "y" is taken as "n". => | => | Regards, => | => | Stewart => => Hi Stewart, => => An "a" (all) answer to the yes/no questions is certainly easy to do. => I've thought about doing it, too, but AFAIK, none of the other fscks => allow this response. I'll ask around and see if anyone objects. Huh? Under CentOS 5.3: man fsck [SNIP!] Options to different filesystem-specific fsck's are not standardized. If in doubt, please consult the man pages of the filesystem-specific checker. Although not guaranteed, the following options are supported by most file system checkers: -a Automatically repair the file system without any questions (use this option [SNIP!] -y For some filesystem-specific checkers, the -y option will cause the fs-spe- cific fsck to always attempt to fix any detected filesystem corruption auto- matically. Sometimes an expert may be able to do better driving the fsck manually. Note that not all filesystem-specific checkers implement this option. In particular fsck.minix(8) and fsck.cramfs(8) does not support the -y option as of this writing. [SNIP!] In fact, almost every fsck I've known & loved (SunOS, Solaris, HPUX, Linux) supports "-y". Mark => => Regards, => => Bob Peterson => Red Hat GFS => -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster