Suggestion regarding fsck output enhancement

Gary Aitken freebsd at dreamchaser.org
Mon Aug 24 13:44:15 UTC 2020


On 8/24/20 2:40 AM, Polytropon wrote:
> Today I came across a situation where I would think fsck should
> output a little more information, which would be helpful especially
> in diagnostics and dry-run sessions prior to recovery.
> 
> Example:
> 
> 	INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=24236 (288 should be 268)
> 	CORRECT? yes
> 
> Or:
> 
> 	UNREF FILE  I=63518082  OWNER=test1 MODE=100644
> 	SIZE=0 MTIME=Aug 24 09:45 2020
> 	RECONNECT? yes
> 
> In both entries, the inode number is mentioned. Wouldn't it be
> nice to display a file or directory name, if possible, to show
> what file could be affected? 

+10!



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