Bug#568200: initscripts: fsck attempted on non-existent partitions

2010-02-03 Thread Celejar
I agree with the reporter. I have indeed been forced to do what Petter suggests, and set fs_passno to 0, but this is not an optimal solution, since the external disk is sometimes present at boot, and when it is, I do want it to be fscked. Why should there be no easy way to tell init fsck, and

Bug#568200: initscripts: fsck attempted on non-existent partitions

2010-02-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: initscripts Version: 2.87dsf-8 Severity: normal I had an entry like this in /etc/fstab: UUID=4823-93A9 /mnt/usb8gigvfat defaults,users,uid=65534,gid=65534,umask=000,shortname=win950 2 When upgrading past dosfstools 3.0.1 I ran into a problem that fsck was exiting

Bug#568200: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#568200: initscripts: fsck attempted on non-existent partitions

2010-02-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Arthur Marsh] I believe that if there is an entry in /etc/fstab for a filesystem whose device (or in this case UUID) does not exist, no attempt should be made to run fsck. Perhaps just a device UUID=4823-93A9 does not exist should be reported, but please don't halt the boot process. Well, I