Karel Zak wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:15:53AM +0100, Ludwig Nussel wrote: > > analog to mount gracefully ignoring non existing devices if the "nofail" > > option is specified in fstab, also have fsck -A skip them. This way it's > > possible to have devices optionally not available during boot but still > > have them fsck'd if they are there. > > Ah yes, this is better that the original Matthias' "fsck -X" patch. > (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/5377) > > From my point of view the patch looks good, but it would be nice to > add a note about "nofail" to the fsck.8 man page. Ah, right. Here's a patch. I'm no native speaker so feel free to reword it. cu Ludwig >From 995d46eab619239cc43793dc547fb0b477925126 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:47:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] document fsck behavior wrt nofail option and fstype 'auto'. --- fsck/fsck.8 | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fsck/fsck.8 b/fsck/fsck.8 index ea0321c..fd1e7e2 100644 --- a/fsck/fsck.8 +++ b/fsck/fsck.8 @@ -215,6 +215,22 @@ not to use this configuration if they need to avoid multiple filesystem checks running in parallel for some reason --- for example, if the machine in question is short on memory so that excessive paging is a concern. +.sp +.B fsck +normally does not check whether the device actually exists before +calling a file system specific checker. Therefore non-existing +devices may cause the system to enter file system repair mode during +boot if the filesystem specific checker returns a fatal error. The +.B /etc/fstab +mount option +.B nofail +may be used to have +.B fsck +skip non-existing devices. +.B fsck +also skips non-existing devices that have the special file system type +.B auto +. .TP .B \-C\fR [ \fI "fd" \fR ] Display completion/progress bars for those filesystem checkers (currently -- 1.6.4.2 -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
