Istvan Gabor said the following on 02/23/2010 03:10 PM:
The question remains: how can I enable fsck progress bar at system boot?
I'm sorry you don't see it. If you have an normal install, then fsck runs and finds it doesn't need to, so you boot quickly. I pointed you to the man pages so you could he how to set fsck to force a full scan on, or example, every boot, every other boot, every ninth boot, every third day .. whatever. Just running fsck, which should be in /etc/init.d/boot.localfs, which should get run at boot time, is not enough. If there was a clean shutdown and no other reason to force a full scan, there won't be one. Most of us consider this a good thing. A clean shutdown means less chance of file system corruption on the next boot, and a fast boot means the system is up and useful sooner. On the whole the old UNIX philosophy was that if nothing untoward happens than ... nothing happens. Unlike VMS and other systems you don't get an NOTICE_ALL_OK message on the completion of command or a NOTHING_FOUND output from grep or find being pushed down the pipeline. If you want a full scan, the go back and read the man pages again and think how you would set a file system to run a full scan on every other boot. Then every boot. I'm sorry you don't see it. However if you're system somehow doesn't have the boot.localfs - I can't imagine how - then I apologise. So, check /var/log/boot.msg Somewhere it should have something like ... Waiting for device /dev/sda1 to appear: ok fsck 1.41.1 (01-Sep-2008) [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/sda1 ROOT: clean, 10969/140256 files, 91375/560259 blocks fsck succeeded. Mounting root device read-write. Mounting root /dev/disk/sda1 mount -o rw,noacl -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /root And there you have it. fsck runs. it sees a clean shutdown and just mounts. no need for scan. So, as the manual page made clear, if you want a scan on every boot, or every other boot, or every Nth boot or every Mth day YOU HAVE TO SET IT. Otherwise a clean shutdown means a scanless and fast boot. Personally I like clean shutdowns and I like fast boots. I can imagine though, some people don't. -- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org