Regarding this, I rebuilt a mountall package that fixed this bug and uploaded
it to my PPA about two years ago.
I added the "--fsck-console" option to mountall, and then added the
option to enable this at boot time by adding the line "FSCKCONSOLE=yes"
to /etc/defaults/rcS. From the changelog:
* Added "--fsck-console" parameter to use console progress bar. To
enable, add "FSCKCONSOLE=yes" to /etc/defaults/rcS.
My PPA package is still sitting on Launchpad here:
https://launchpad.net/~mark-syminet/+archive/syminet/+packages
If this seems a good approach, I'm willing to spend the time to take a
look at this again but only if someone is willing to consider getting it
into the distribution, since I only want to use distribution packages on
servers for critical boot-things like this.
This really is a particularly nasty bug because servers can run for a
long time without a power cut, etc. - but then that fateful day arrives
and we are stuck without any idea if the remote machine is even hung,
while bosses and customers are screaming about downtime demanding ETA's.
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mountall should cause fsck to show progress on text console
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