Whether fs checks are skipped when the system is running on battery can be
controlled by the new e2fsck.conf option defer_check_on_battery (this option
defaults to TRUE).
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 12:53:33PM -0600, Fredrick Knieper wrote:
> Package: e2fsprogs
> Version: 1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.31-1
>
> When running fsck at boot or when running e2fsck manually on a device,
> fsck will not check a filesystem based on the maximum mount count,
> unless a flag such as -f or -c is used to force the filesystem check.
What's happening is that when you run on battery, e2fsck will delay
running the filesystem check, on the assumption that it is better to
defer the check until some time in the future when your laptop is
running on AC mains again. This deferral is not infinite, however; if
the number of mounts exceeds twice the max mount counts, or if the
interval between checks exceeds twice the check interval, e2fsck will
force the check even though you are on battery.
I've changed the sources to print a message to make this more clear.
Addresses Debian Bug: #350306
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
E2fsck will now report syntax errors in /etc/e2fsck.conf intead of simply
ignoring the config file when there are errors.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Also, use this environtment variable to make sure that a local
/etc/e2fsck.conf file will not interfere with the regression test
suite.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If the e2fsck configuration file sets the allow_cancellation option to be
true, then if the filesystem does not have any known problems, and was
known to be cleanly unmounted, then let e2fsck exit with a status code of 0
instead of 32 (FSCK_CANCELED) so that the bootup scripts will continue
without stopping the boot. (Addresses Debian Bug: #150295)
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Don't let the user run e2fsck -ccn on the root partition, without warning
that he or she might be doing something Really Stupid.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Detect if the superblock's last mount field or last write field is in
the future, and offer to fix if so. (Addresses Debian Bug #327580)
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
as well as the filesystem-wide inode and block free counts. If any of the
free counts is too large, force a full filesystem check. (Addresses
Debian Bug #291571)
example, /tmp/test.img?offset=1024. Multiple options can separated using
the & character, although at the moment the only option implemented is
the offset option in the unix_io layer.
a filesystem check if a laptop system reports it is running on
battery. This way the laptop will be biased to waiting until
it is on AC power before doing a filesystem check. (Addresses
Debian bug #205177)
e2fsck_simple_progress): Don't print the ^A and ^B
characters which bracket the progress bar when the e2fsck
program is talking directly to a tty, but only when it is
being piped to another program. (Addresses Debian bug
#204137)
unix.c: Move some initialized variables to the BSS segment to
shrink the size of the e2fsck executable.
tune2fs to use the test I/O manager.
The test I/O manager has been changed to not do anything extra by
default, unless the TEST_IO_FLAGS and/or TEST_IO_BLOCK environment
variables are set, which controls what I/O operations are logged and
a block number to watch, respectively. The log messages are sent to
stderr by default, unless a filename is specified via the
TEST_IO_LOGFILE environment variable.
* Change e2fsck to bracket its progress bar output with ctrl-A and ctrl-B
characters, so that logsave -s can omit writing the progress bar output
to the log file.
directories.
Speed up e2fsck slightly by only updating the master superblock;
there is no point to update the backup superblocks.
Fix a small bug in the rehashing code which could leave the indexed
flag set even after the directory was compressed instead of indexed.
(Not fatal, since the kernel will deal with this, but technically
it filesystem isn't consistent, and the filesystem will be marked
as being in error when the kernel comes across the directory. It
should also never happen in real life, since directories that small
will never be indexed, but better safe than sorry.)
Also change the threshold of when directories are indexed, so that
directories of size 2 blocks will be indexed. Otherwise they will
never be indexed by the kernel when they grow.
make sure we gracefully clean up and only exit at safe points.
For fsck, we pass the SIGINT/SIGTERM signal to the child processes,
so they can do their own cleanup.
Theodore Ts'o