linux-ext4 - Re: e2fsck -y says "yes" to "Abort?"

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Message-ID: <49ECC12B.5090602@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:38:35 -0400
From:	Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
CC:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: e2fsck -y says "yes" to "Abort?"

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 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
>   
That would be useful for scripting users - it is already assumed to be 
wildly dangerous to run it in "yes" mode I would assume in any case :-)

ric

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