wish Gnome would announce filesystem trouble

[Tommy Trussell]

If the OS finds a problem with the filesystem on a removeable drive, it would be really nice to have a notice that pops up in Gnome to tell you about it. Actually it might be nice to get a notice about any filesystem errors, SMART status, or whatever seems to be an important problem the kernel has detected on any filesystem.

Background: I was just reporting Bug 134396 -- a problem with a Firewire (ieee1394) removable disk drive -- and I realized I would have appreciated some GUI notification that the operating system was detecting filesystem problems before the drive apparently "failed" completely. For example, once I noticed it was having difficulties, dmesg showed it was complaining its ext3 partitions had been mounted some large number of times without running fsck. This turned out to be a red herring, but if ext3 wants to fsck things occasionally, who am I to question it?

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

Marking as a duplicate from bug #85291

[Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell)]

The situation I described is similar to the other bug, HOWEVER what about NON ext file system troubles? --

I'm using external drives which I have formatted as ext3, but they could just as easily be formatted as FAT or HFS+ or whatever, and I have seen no indication that GNOME announces when they have trouble reading or writing. (In fact when I have had filesystem trouble, the only reaction I have noticed is that Nautilus got really slow or froze, but I don't exactly have a test case I can work with.)

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

You're absolutely right, the main bug needs to be extend for a more general case.