Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> writes: > So, add me to the list of people who'd like a "mount if possible" > switch, with nothing more than a boot warning if some of them cannot > be found at all, or have unfixable fsck issues. Agreed - that would be great. > I'd actually prefer even more - for most of those, if the filesystem > isn't clean, and it isn't just a matter of "replay the log" to deal > with it, I'd prefer that the filesys simply be skipped until the > system is up multi-user, and then the necessary fsck fix be attempted > while the system is carrying on with its real work, and if successful > the mount be performed later (so some of that junk might be missing for > a while after a boot following an unclean shutdown, but most of it > will come back later). That could be ok, or to complicated - if it's optional just leaving it for the admin seems fine. > Certainly all this can be accomplished by ad-hoc scripts, but it > seems like something that many people actually would use, and we'd > benefit if this was done in a standard way. Well said.
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