Istvan Gabor said the following on 02/23/2010 03:10 PM:
I looked through the abovementioned man pages but could not find anything related to the progress bar. Have I overlooked it maybe?
Probably. You should have seen -C fd This option causes e2fsck to write completion information to the specified file descriptor so that the progress of the filesystem check can be monitored. This option is typically used by programs which are running e2fsck. If the file descriptor number is negative, then absolute value of the file descriptor will be used, and the progress information will be suppressed initially. It can later be enabled by sending the e2fsck process a SIGUSR1 signal. *** If the file descriptor specified is 0, e2fsck will print a *** completion bar as it goes about its business. This requires *** that e2fsck is running on a video console or terminal.
Oh, and Charles, I pasted those in using my mouse's scroll wheel
? I don't understand this one.
That's for Charles Obler who thinks you can't paste using KDE4. You can and I did.
The question remains: how can I enable fsck progress bar at system boot?
Since that's done in /etc/init.d/boot.d/ ... oh maybe there's a systemsetting that turns it on or off. Do a case independent recursive grep under /etc for fsck and see what you uncover. OBTW: what's in initrd and your boot command line? Those get handed to the boot scripts an can affect this -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org