Regular FSCK Required ?

Don Libes libes at cme.nist.gov
Thu Mar 28 13:08:16 AEST 1991


In article <126605 at uunet.UU.NET> rbj at uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>In article <11004 at dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek at elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>?In article <1991Mar15.095247.13441 at thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
>?mouse at thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
>?>Unfortunately this is not always what you want.  I would *really* like
>?>an option to fsck that automatically answers "yes" to "CONTINUE?"
>?>messages and "no" to all others.

For sites that don't have Karel's fix, here's an expect script to do it.

	spawn fsck
	for {} 1 {} {
		expect	"*CONTINUE?*"	{send "y\r"} \
			"*?*"		{send "n\r"} \
			eof		{exit}
	}


>Cannot read superblock: CONTINUE?

I would've liked it better if the message read:

Cannot continue: CONTINUE?

Don Libes          libes at cme.nist.gov      ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes



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