Automatic periodic fscks have long annoyed many people and don't do any
good, which is why we have stopped doing them on internal disks. It
would likely be much more of an annoyance on removable media. Ext3/4
don't need such checks even if you unplug them without unmounting. For
the filesystems that do ( fat, ntfs ), we don't have a way of detecting
when they need checked, or decent tools to properly check them anyhow.
** Changed in: gnome-volume-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85291
Title:
filesystems are never fsck'ed if they live on removable USB disks
Status in “gnome-volume-manager” package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
I don't know which package to assign this bug to, and sorry if it has
been reported before - I couldn't find a report.
ext2/3 filesystems are regulary fsck'ed after a given number of boots
if those filesystems are part of the fixed disks. However removable
USB disks (I can only check for those, but I guess firewire at al.
also share this) are never fsck'ed automatically. This might me
dangerous because they are much more likely to be removed incorrectly
(w/o unmounting) and are attached/reattached frequently. I just
realized that my external disk was mounted hundreds of times without
ever being checked (and am sure that despite trying to be
responsible, I sometimes yanked the cable w/o unmounting)
NOTE:
i've removed the ext3 case because this also applies to some other filesystem
types as described in duplicated bugs.
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