Re: [MiNT] Easymint filesystem checks

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 16:57 +1100, Paul Wratt wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Jeff Mitchell <skeezix@skeleton.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> >
> > # On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 12:37 +0100, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> > # > On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 17:02 -0500, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> > # > >   I woudl assume the norm is to go through fstab (or hd driver) and
> > # > > fsck all the devices with a known fs type; if its an unknwon fs, skip it
> > # > > and do not consider it an error?
> > # >
> > # > I made a small test-program last night (in C). It does a
> > # > Dcntl(FS_INFO...) on all drives, partition types are correctly
> > # > idenfified. It should be easy to run the correct fsck on each partition.
> > #
> > # Here's a tiny program that checks the filesystem-type on each partition
> > # and runs e2fsck.ttp on each ext2-partition. No fstab is needed, just
> > # this program and e2fsck. It's a pretty crude hack, but illustrates how
> > # this can be done. It doesn't check the return value of e2fsck, so
> > # booting will continue even if an unrecoverable error is found.
> > #
> > # I compiled this with PureC, and it doesn't use any libraries except the
> > # GEMDOS bindings. If somebody wants to make something useful out of this
> > # please go ahead :)
> >
> >        To be 'unix flavored', maybe hand it an app on the commandline
> > that it woudl then 'map over' the drive-set; or really, a unixy way of
> > doing it would be a tool to return a list of devices, and another tool
> > that maps it over a third tool.. but not sure you want all those nested
> > processes and shells firing off on a TOS-machine, so maybe the first
> > flavour woudl be the way to go .. 'fs-check FSTYPE FSCHECK', with example
> > being 'fs-check ext2 e2fsck' :P
> >
> >                jeff
> >
> 
> what other FSCK binaries do we have (for specific FS)
> 
> I know there are tools for minix FS, but does it contain a FSCK tool?
> (cant check my easymint setup atm, which does have minix tools)
> 
> What other FS are also used?

There is a dos.fsck and minix.fsck at the very least. If I remember
correctly the dos.fsck is in a dos package, but the minix tools are
stored currently in the freemint CVS.

Alan.