>> [...fsck now] will refuse to check a marked-clean filesystem even if
>> you specifically give the disk device name.

> there is every possibility (and, indeed, it's almost always the case
> when _i_ use fsck in this way) that if the file system is clean, they
> don't want it to be rechecked.  those people who REALLY want it
> checked can, upon seeing the message, say fsck -f ...

Hm, my reaction is to remark that if we're going to be resorting to
personal usage desires, when I tell fsck to check /dev/foo, I damn well
want it to check /dev/foo (the NOT A CHARACTER DEVICE / CONTINUE?
question is obnoxious enough - come to think of it, I should downgrade
that to a non-question message), and that people who want to skip clean
filesystems can type ^C upon seeing the "already clean" message.

It also occurs to me that people using shells without last-command
recall (like most NetBSD systems running single-user, I suspect) can be
quite ticked off at having to retype the filesystem name, especially if
it's long (which, granted, is unlikely to be the case).

Oh well.  One more patch in my private patch tree won't kill me. :-)

					der Mouse

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