Boot & e2fsck Q

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

This machine has a 200GB drive thats used for vtapes and swap, and 
when it setup /dev/hdd3 as the mountpoint/amandatapes, it set it up 
for an e2fsck every 22 mounts.  Thats fine, no problem with that, but 
when it does this check during a boot, there will be a line 
indicating the check has been forced, followed by other lines on the 
screen as it mounts some of the rest of the other drives.  2, maybe 3 
more lines of that below the check forced line.

But the check is totally silent, no progress bar, no little twiddling 
thumbs in text mode, nothing!  Now, for a 180GB partition, this 
obviously does take a while, and the first time it happened I thought 
the boot had hung and 3 fingered it a couple of times before I 
discovered that the drive access led was flickering like mad.  It 
doesn't face me as its under an adjacent desk

Partitions on other drives (/dev/hdax, /dev/hdbx) get the usual 
progress report when they are being checked, so why isn't this one?

An rc.sysinit bug maybe?

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