From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
ludwig.nussel@suse.de, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] New fsck option to ignore device-mapper crypto devices
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:14:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080312201455.GF15804@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080312200236.GE15804@mit.edu>
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:02:36PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> So here's another way you could do things that doesn't require any
> patches to fsck at all. Just add "comment=crypto" into the option
> field of /etc/fstab, like this.
>
> /dev/mapper/crypto-frobnitz /crypto1 ext3 comment=crypto 1 1
>
> Then you can skip filesystems that have the comment=crypto in the
> options field via:
>
> fsck -AR -t opts=!comment=crypto
Oh by the way, in case you haven't tried this, the best way to test
exactly what fsck will do with a set of arguments is by using the -NV
options, i.e.:
fsck -ARNV -t opts=!comment=crypto
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-12 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-06 13:41 [PATCH] [RFC] New fsck option to ignore device-mapper crypto devices Matthias Koenig
2008-03-06 14:32 ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-03-06 17:04 ` Matthias Koenig
2008-03-06 17:23 ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-03-06 17:42 ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-07 14:20 ` Matthias Koenig
2008-03-07 15:19 ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-03-12 15:59 ` Matthias Koenig
2008-03-12 20:02 ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-12 20:14 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-03-13 5:37 ` Dave Kleikamp
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