Please add support for fsck.mode= parameters as known by systemd-fsck

[Michael Biebl]

Forwarding https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783410
to  pkg-systemd-maintainers, just in case, someone from the team has
some spare time and wants to work on a patch for initramfs-tools.

Looks like something we might want to get into 8.1.

On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:36:39 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.120
> Severity: important
> 
> systemd-fsck [1] knows the following kernel command line parameters
> 
> fsck.mode=
> 
>  One of "auto", "force", "skip". Controls the mode of operation. The default
>  is "auto", and ensures that file system checks are done when the file system
>  checker deems them necessary. "force" unconditionally results in full file
>  system checks. "skip" skips any file system checks.
> 
> fsck.repair=
> 
>  One of "preen", "yes", "no". Controls the mode of operation. The default is
>  " preen", and will automatically repair problems that can be safely fixed. "yes
>  " will answer yes to all questions by fsck and "no" will answer no to all
>  questions.
> 
> 
> Please consider adding support for those kernel command line parameters
> in initramfs-tools. Otherwise it's pretty confusing for users if the
> documentation as shipped by systemd doesn't really have the effect they
> expect.
> 
> Michael
> 
> [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-fsck@.service.html
> [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/04/msg01423.html
> 
> -- Package-specific info:
> -- initramfs sizes
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24M Apr 26 01:20 /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19M Apr 25 14:35 /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64
> -- /proc/cmdline
> BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64 root=UUID=5c503ec2-6528-44bb-9ff5-aa2687aa9706 ro quiet splash systemd.show_status=true
> 
> -- resume
> RESUME=UUID=c0d2bc19-898f-4306-a734-85e547e249f0
> -- /proc/filesystems
> 	btrfs
> 	ext3
> 	ext2
> 	ext4
> 	fuseblk
> 
> -- lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> ctr                    12927  3 
> ccm                    17577  3 
> xt_CHECKSUM            12471  1 
> iptable_mangle         12536  1 
> ipt_MASQUERADE         12594  3 
> iptable_nat            12646  1 
> nf_nat_ipv4            12912  1 iptable_nat
> nf_nat                 18241  3 ipt_MASQUERADE,nf_nat_ipv4,iptable_nat
> nf_conntrack_ipv4      18448  2 
> nf_defrag_ipv4         12483  1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
> xt_conntrack           12681  1 

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