Bug 178468

Summary:	fsck restarts if errors are found
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Need Real Name <lsof>
Component:	e2fsprogs	Assignee:	Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	kzak, sct, sundaram
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Description Need Real Name 2006-01-20 20:51:22 UTC

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Description of problem:
If fsck runs a check on a big disk, and finds errors, it will drop to a password prompt, and start the fsck all over again. So much for my uptime!

It would be good if fsck could continue from where it left off.

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How reproducible:
Didn't try

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Additional info:

(Is there a background fsck planned?)

Comment 1 Rahul Sundaram 2006-02-20 09:20:54 UTC

Setting report severity to enhancement. Moving version to devel.

Comment 2 Stephen Tweedie 2006-03-22 18:03:01 UTC

fsck does not necessarily have anywhere to store progress information: the fsck
in "preen" mode by definition does not make major changes on disk, and we are
likely to be running with any mounted filesystems being mounted readonly when it
runs.  So it's really not obvious how we could do this.  

It's major work, and something that definitely needs to be driven upstream, not
just within Fedora.  There are no plans to address this right now.