Problem with fsck on CURRENT??

[Bernd Walter]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 05:36:27PM -0500, Rod Person wrote:
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> I'm not sure if this is a problem or is normal but here it is.
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> I have an external ATAPI drive that is connected to my machine via
> firewire (that case also has a usb2 connection). My system crashed so I
> needed to fsck this disk. Now however I start fsck it does not allow me
> to answer 'Y' to any of the question - it answer N automatically.
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> I've tried starting fsck with -y and that seems to do nothing! The
> drive is formatted with a UFS2 file system and I have to invoke fsck
> like this:
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> 	fsck -t ufs /mnt
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> Otherwise it claims not to be able to tell what file system type it is?
> I'm just wondering is this normal for external drives even if they are
> formatted with a native file system? Fsck doesn't act this why with my
> internal SCSI drives?

fsck get's the FS type from /etc/fstab.
The other part is already aswered it seems.

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