[Bug 838091] Re: should link fsck.ntfs -> ntfsfix/ntfsck

[Rüdiger Kupper]

1) This problem will affect all users that have ntfs checks requested in
their fstab after upgrading to oneiric. These are supposedly *very
many*.

2) The real problem is not that the check fails, but that oneiric's
startup screen FALSELY reports that there were "serious problems"
mounting the drives. The screen should report that the drives could not
be checked since no program to do this was available. The message as it
is will badly scare users, since the must assume that their data is
damaged, which, most likely, is not the case.

3) Not requesting the check will of course avoid this bug. But since
users could safely request checking in fstab up to natty without
receiving any errors, we must assume that checks *are* requested for
ntfs drives.

4) This is a show stopper for oneiric.

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Title:
  should link fsck.ntfs -> ntfsfix/ntfsck

Status in “ntfs-3g” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I've got a dualboot laptop, and the installer has created fstab
  entries for the NTFS partitions. But now oneiric is complaining that
  it can't mount them, and prompts me on boot what to do about it.
  Skipping or ignoring the error makes the boot complete, and boot.log
  reveals that it fails due to fsck.ntfs being missing.

  So, ntfs-3g should symlink fsck.ntfs to ntfsfix or ntfsck, though the
  latter fails to check my partitions, so maybe ntfsfix would be better.

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