C,mon developers, this is another one of these EMBARRASSING things that gives Linux a bad name.
All removable devices should be auto fsck'd as a strict policy to ensure that the user has the best chance of accessing and saving their data. At least give people a warning and the option to fix things. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-volume-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85291 Title: filesystems are never fsck'ed if they live on removable USB disks Status in “gnome-volume-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I don't know which package to assign this bug to, and sorry if it has been reported before - I couldn't find a report. ext2/3 filesystems are regulary fsck'ed after a given number of boots if those filesystems are part of the fixed disks. However removable USB disks (I can only check for those, but I guess firewire at al. also share this) are never fsck'ed automatically. This might me dangerous because they are much more likely to be removed incorrectly (w/o unmounting) and are attached/reattached frequently. I just realized that my external disk was mounted hundreds of times without ever being checked (and am sure that despite trying to be responsible, I sometimes yanked the cable w/o unmounting) NOTE: i've removed the ext3 case because this also applies to some other filesystem types as described in duplicated bugs. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-volume-manager/+bug/85291/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp