friendly-recovery tries to fsck mounted partitions

[Jesse van Herk]

Binary package hint: friendly-recovery

When running the fsck option from the recovery menu, and there are separate partitions for /home and /usr/local, fsck tries checking those partitions without first unmounting them. This results in a confirmation prompt warning about data destruction, which is not friendly. friendly-recovery takes efforts to prevent destroying the root partition, but should do a similar check to avoid destroying other partitions.

Version information:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

$ apt-cache policy friendly-recovery
friendly-recovery:
  Installed: 0.2.6
  Candidate: 0.2.6
  Version table:
 *** 0.2.6 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Francisco T. (leviatan1)]

I confirm this, it's not very friendly.

Could it be a problem to continue with the check?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This is fixed now, current versions just drop a /forcefsck file for mountall and reboot. So the fsck happens very early in the boot process.