On Apr 20, 2009 14:38 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: > Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Ric Wheeler wrote: >>> The only down side is when you try to automate this (say in an >>> appliance) and you don't have a human reading the output. In this >>> case, you might just want to invert the logic but in general, it does >>> seem dangerous to invert the logic for a long standing option, >> >> Maybe make something like "-yy" automatically answer "n" to anything >> that would stop the fsck, and answer "y" to anything that it proposes >> fixing? > > That would be useful for scripting users - it is already assumed to be > wildly dangerous to run it in "yes" mode I would assume in any case :-) Well, all of the questions are designed to choose a safe option when run with "-y", and to avoid changing the filesystem when run with "-n". Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- 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
