Bug#767471: [initramfs-tools] / formatted as ext3 but mounted as ext4 not fsck-able

2015-05-14 Thread Joerg Schneider
I ran into the same problem. The root cause of the problem is that the logic for selecting the fsck programs to include in the initramfs is not the same as the logic for deciding which fsck program to run during boot. During build /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/fsck parses /etc/fstab to det

Bug#767471: [initramfs-tools] / formatted as ext3 but mounted as ext4 not fsck-able

2014-12-22 Thread Richard Kettlewell
I ran into the inverse situation: my /etc/fstab said ext3, but at runtime the initramfs looked for /sbin/fsck.ext4, and couldn't find it. Perhaps instead of special-casing ext3/ext4, it might be better to make it use 'fsck -N' (or equivalent) to discover which fsck backend will be used at runt

Bug#767471: [initramfs-tools] / formatted as ext3 but mounted as ext4 not fsck-able

2014-10-31 Thread Riccardo Magliocchetti
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.118 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- I have a ext3 formatted / which in /etc/fstab is mounted with ext4. This does not cope well with the logic in hooks/fsck which assumes that fsck.$fs will work with a filesystem entry $fs i