Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.40.8-2 Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line ***
This is related to another feature request I just made against sysvinit. I'll follow up with it's bug number when the BTS replies to my mail. Also, I've discussed it in this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/06/msg00833.html Here are my e2fsprogs-specific feature requests. Let me know if I should file them against other packages instead: 1) Let users cleanly interrupt fsck If users hit ctrl+c (or maybe ESC), fsck should guarantee that the filesystem is in a relatively safe state before terminating. fsck probably does do this already, but some users on the threads weren't sure, and thought that hitting ctrl+C might be an unsafe operation. 2) Allow 'info gathering' fsck mode, while partition is mounted r/w. 2.1) Let fsck (or some related utility) scan for errors while the partitions are mounted read/write. This will probably find a lot of bogus errors. This can be run in the background by the desktop environment, while the user is logged in. 2.2) Let fsck be run against that gathered info, so it can quickly check which errors are real, and which ones need to actually be fixed. If the info was gathered recently, and is complete, fsck should be able to safely record that the drive was scanned (pushing back the time of the next scheduled fsck for the partition). -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_ZA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages e2fsprogs depends on: ii e2fslibs 1.40.8-2 ext2 filesystem libraries ii libblkid1 1.40.8-2 block device id library ii libc6 2.7-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.40.8-2 common error description library ii libss2 1.40.8-2 command-line interface parsing lib ii libuuid1 1.40.8-2 universally unique id library e2fsprogs recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
