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tjacobs
08-21-2004, 09:12 AM
The boot script doesn't seem to contain support for automatically running fsck on a persistent home at boot time. This can lead to corruption if a persistent home directory is not unmounted cleanly. Currently, the boot actions are as follows:

scan devices such as USB keydrives (e.g. /dev/sda1) for filesystems containing knoppix.img
mount partition containing knoppix.img
map knoppix.img to a loopback device
mount the loopback device on /home/knoppix

The problem, of course, is that one or both of the devices (i.e. /dev/sda1 or /dev/loop0) may need an fsck, but this isn't handled at present. The boot script should check both the host drive and the loopback file before mounting.

Is there an official bug tracker where I can report this?

kelmo
08-22-2004, 11:32 AM
Do you have a fix or patch to remedy this?