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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:26:04
Message-Id: 20111202232429.6d6a1a4b@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption by David W Noon
1 On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 22:00:18 +0000, David W Noon wrote:
2
3 > > Now it makes sense, but can't you use busybox fsck?
4 >
5 > AFAIAA, busybox does not have an fsck command. If it did, it would
6 > only be a transparent loader for filesystem-specific programs, such as
7 > e2fsck or reiserfsck; this is how the standard fsck program works too.
8
9 Busybox does have an fsck, it doesn't recognise the filesystem type, you
10 have to give it as an argument. A quick Google suggest that it does
11 indeed pass the work on to e2fsck, however, I tried renaming /sbin/e2fsck
12 and then running "busybox fsck -t ext2 /dev/summat" and it worked.
13
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 Copy from another: plagiarism. Copy from many: research.

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