[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#637087: Sensible default for all systems

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Sat Dec 17 23:14:51 UTC 2011


I don't see any possible scenario where FSCKFIX=no makes sense as a
default.  We don't debug broken filesystems with disk editors anymore;
either fsck works, or we restore files from backup (or from Debian
packages after running debsums).  Filesystem developers might want to
set FSCKFIX=no, or ask others to temporarily do so to reproduce a
problem, but as a default I think it makes sense to use FSCKFIX=yes on
all types of systems.

When fsck hits an error and offers to drop into a root shell, who does
anything other than just running fsck again and saying "go ahead and fix
it"?  Let's remove the intermediate step.

- Josh Triplett





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