fsck (or initlog) result codes

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Feb 5 15:53:40 UTC 2004


Leonard den Ottolander (leonard at den.ottolander.nl) said: 
> > > With an fsck result code of 3 however the system passes the next fsck
> > > with no errors whatsoever. Could it be that fsck's result code on
> > > failure actually is -1? Or any other value? Or does initlog (via which
> > > fsck is called) somehow change the result value?
> > 
> > It shouldn't change it, no.
> 
> So any idea why the fsck fails although no errors are left on the file
> system?

Not off the top of my head without looking at the source code.

Bill





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