Comment 30 for bug 431040

   Issues are as follows:

1: if someone has not set a root password but is asked for a root password for the shell, they cannot fix the filesystem and can only try to skip it with ^d. Unless the shell does not ask for a root password when none or a random one is set, this is real trouble, as mountall won't let them try to boot.

 If mountall just brings them back to the shell and again asks for the root password, they need a rescue disk/flash drive. How many converts from Windoze will be able to handle that?

2: If someone has a big /home partition with errors they should still be able to boot and put off fsck repairs because they may not have 15 minutes to wait on a 160GB disk being checked if they are say, checking email before going out the door. An end user with a 1TB drive will have real trouble is they run into, say, the clock/utc fsck bug.

> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:56:38 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Bug 431040] The latest mountall version as of Oct 9
>
> On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 03:03 +0000, Luke wrote:
>
> > There is still one serious problem: because the shell is external to
> > mountall, fsck re-runs and errors out again if you try to skip with
> > control-d! This could be especially bad if someone has not manually set
> > a root password, assuming the system still demands one.
> >
> I don't understand - you can't skip this with ^D.
>
> If you don't repair the filesystem, you cannot boot. That's precisely
> why it's given you a shell.
>
> Scott
> --
> Scott James Remnant
> <email address hidden>
>
> --
> separate /var and /var/tmp tmpfs dependency loop
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/431040
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