On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 06:58:21PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Clint Adams wrote: > >Is there a legitimate reason to set a pass number if you actually do not want > >the filesystem to be checked? > I would say probably not. But in the past, I (and others) would > often cut-and-paste fstab lines, then add noauto. Previously, the > system would not attempt to fsck filesystems marked noauto. So this > upgrade could render people's machines unbootable.
I'm inclined to check in preinst and at least warn the admin about what will happen on the next boot. Would that be sufficient for you? > On the other side of the coin, I see no reason to fail to boot > because a noauto filesystem didn't fsck. It's more that a filesystem that fstab says to check failed to pass. lamont -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
