[Bug 875237] Re: Mount ntfs partition at boot fails because no fsck.ntfs

[bert]

I do agree with that, the problem is that this issue prevented system to 
boot.
The only error was fsck.ntfs not found. Partition itself had no errors.

So in my humble opinion, the boot process shouldn't alert user about 
"serious errors" when there is NO error on partition but just a tool 
missing.

Should it ?


Regards,

Le 16/10/2011 10:45, Jean-Pierre a écrit :
>> Creating a symlink from ntfsfix to /sbin/fsck.ntfs make things working
> again.
>
> Yes, but ntfsfix is not a file system checker, it fixes common errors
> preventing the partition from mounting and triggers chkdsk next time the
> partition will be used on Windows.
>
> It is a bad idea to give users the impression that they are in a safe
> situation because they request  their file system to be checked at boot
> time, when there is no check at all.
>
> (When the traffic lights are out of order, it is better to force a
> winking orange light than a green light)
>


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Title:
  Mount ntfs partition at boot fails because no fsck.ntfs

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

Bug description:
  When system boots, it tries to fsck partitions to be mounted according
  to fstab.

  As fsck.ntfs doesn't exists on Oneiric, it fails with error 8 then ask
  for user input (Ignore, Skip or Manual Repair).

  Creating a symlink from ntfsfix to /sbin/fsck.ntfs make things working
  again.

  Got this after upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10

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