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

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Message-id: <20090420204704.GG3209@webber.adilger.int>
Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:47:04 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: e2fsck -y says "yes" to "Abort?"

On Apr 20, 2009  14:38 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> 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,
>>
>> Maybe make something like "-yy" automatically answer "n" to anything
>> that would stop the fsck, and answer "y" to anything that it proposes
>> fixing?
>   
> 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 :-)

Well, all of the questions are designed to choose a safe option when
run with "-y", and to avoid changing the filesystem when run with "-n".

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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