Re: [MiNT] Easymint filesystem checks

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

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?

Paul