Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 16:00:46 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question about fsck and the -t option Message-ID: <2514.1396479646@server1.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <533C40BF.2010907@cyberleo.net>
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In message <533C40BF.2010907@cyberleo.net>,
CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net> wrote:
>A glance at the source code[1] suggests that {fsck} attempts to infer the
>type from the fstab, and then the BSD disklabel.
Based upon my limited perusal/skimming of the fsck man page, this appears
to be undocumented behavior.
I shall be filing a documentation PR on this, because I'm a firm believer
that important aspects of behavior should be documented.
>It does not appear to
>attempt a guess from the filesystem magic itself.
Should it perhaps do so?
The particular filesystem that wanted to check yesterday was most definitely
_not_ listed in my /etc/fstab file. But that was not an oversight. That was
by intent.
Also and separately, please correct me if I am wrong, but aren't BSD style
partition labels going the way of the dinosaur, now that we have GPT
partitioning available?
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