[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#571241: Bug#571241: checkroot.sh: should not try to fsck rootfs on ubifs

[Bart Trojanowski]

* Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> [100224 13:02]:
> [Bart Trojanowski]
> > I am running on a SheevaPlug.  I installed Debian on a UBIFS
> > filesystem.  This filesystem does not require/have fsck.  That
> > wouldn't be so bad if checkroot.sh didn't forcefully create a
> > /dev/root and try to fsck it.
> 
> Does it not work to specify in /etc/fstab that the file system should
> not be checked?

This chunk (copied from checkroot.sh) completely ignores that:

                # See if we're on AC Power.  If not, we're not gonna run our
                # check.  If on_ac_power (in /usr/) is unavailable, behave as
                # before and check all file systems needing it.
        # Disabled AC power check until fsck can be told to only check the
        # file system if it is corrupt when running on battery. (bug #526398)
        #       if which on_ac_power >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ "$rootcheck" = yes ]
        #       then
        #               on_ac_power >/dev/null 2>&1
        #               if [ "$?" -eq 1 ]
        #               then
        #                       log_warning_msg "On battery power, so skipping file system check."
        #                       rootcheck=no
        #               fi
        #       fi
                rootcheck=yes

Note the last line just sets rootcheck to yes.

I just added this line:

        ( [ "$roottype" = "ubifs" ] ) && rootcheck=no

as the next line.

>  If no fsck is available for ubifs, which program is used to do the
>  fsck-ing?  I thought fsck used fsck.$type to do the actual fsck
>  operation.

You're right, I think I jumped the gun here.  The access is coming
later.  I'll have to figure out where, and open a better bug.

-Bart

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