Re: udev auto-mount not doing fsck

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:12:22AM -0400, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>wrote:
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> > Brian Hutchinson schreef op 10-04-14 15:10:
> > > OK an update.  I decided to stub the automount.rules for the moment to
> > > try and get things working the old way and I'm seeing some curious
> > > behavior. The target is running Yocto 1.5 so it is a fairly recent
> > > distro.
> > >
> > > I made an entry in /etc/fstab for my eUSB with the sixth column set to
> > > 2. On reboot fsck doesn't run.  Hmmm, curious.  I still see the:
> > >
> > > EXT4-fs (sda1): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is
> > > recommended EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> > > Opts: (null)
> > >
> > > ... messages at boot.
> > >
> > > So I do touch /forcefsck and reboot.   Same result. shutdown -rF ... same
> > > result.
> > >
> > > I can't figure out why none of these methods is checking my eUSB drive.
> >
> > To ask the obvious question: is fsck.ext{2,3,4} present on your system?
> >
> >
> Hey Koen,
> 
> Yes, I have the complete e2fsprogs package in the rootfs so I have e2fsck
> etc.
> 
> I just did some tests where I modified the existing mount.sh to run fsck
> first (which busybox passes through and calls the real e2fsck) an so using
> udev rules with some ENV{ID_} type commands to identify my eUSB and then
> call my "special" mount script via RUN appears to work so I guess I'll have
> to continue going that route .... which is in keeping with the new udev way
> of doing things.
> 
> I was just kind of puzzled as to why the older methods didn't work ... not
> that I have ran into this kind of thing before.  Usually I'm using a raw
> NOR or NAND and with a filesystem that deals with the FTL ... this is my
> first time using a mass storage device that handles all the ECC, leveling
> etc. behind the scenes and pretends to be a disk.

Brian,

Be careful, with your eUSB storage device cold-plugged (available on boot) 
you may run into a race condition, if you initially mount your rootfs in 
read-only mode and then re-mount in read-write mode during boot. One of the 
proposed solutions:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded.core/50124

-- 
Denys