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Message-ID: <49ECBFFB.2050004@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:33:31 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>
CC:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: e2fsck -y says "yes" to "Abort?"

Ric Wheeler wrote:

> The only down side is when you try to automate this (say in an 
> appliance) and you don't have a human reading the output. In this case, 
> you might just want to invert the logic but in general, it does seem 
> dangerous to invert the logic for a long standing option,
> 
> Ric
> 

Maybe make something like "-yy" automatically answer "n" to anything
that would stop the fsck, and answer "y" to anything that it proposes
fixing?

-Eric
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