On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 14:14 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > We could argue about whether or not e2fsck should explicitly ask for > permission before using a backup superblock, and possibly printing the > label and validating the size, etc., before using it In that case, I think it should. At least, that would kill the confusion where preen mode apparently doesn't want to automate a potentially dangerous operation, whereas the standard mode works extremely hard to complete the operation with no user intervention (and doesn't even require as much info from the user!). Thanks. -- Daniel Drake Brontes Technologies, A 3M Company - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html