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From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
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To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: Clean flag wrong in superblock
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J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
> It's not only the clean flag.  There might be other bogus messages
> resulting out of applying fsck to a live file system (incorrenct block

If there is a definitive list of what is useful to warn people about
(given that people who are not the sysadmin will not be reading the reports
:-), let me know and I'll add that to the list of things to ignore.

I've seen enough "But I *want* to see the fsck output" postings
that I think it is worth the effort.

> Perhaps the best solution would be to have a knob for turning it on.
> I remember some Perl script called jkh who wanted to revamp all those
> /etc/*ly scripts some day. :-)

Funny you should mention that. I just sent Jordan a package (partially written
in perl :-) which does revamp those scripts. It takes a config file, and builds
the daily/weekly/monthyl scripts based upon what you want to run when.

But having fsck be able to ignore the stuff that will ALWAYS show up
(and can ALWAYS be safely ignored) is useful.

-coranth

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