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From: Jonathan Callen <jcallen@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] busybox fsck vs. fsck.ext4 ... experiences?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 22:49:44
Message-Id: 79b06db2-da03-9595-3b6b-c60bd1da2244@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [OT] busybox fsck vs. fsck.ext4 ... experiences? by tuxic@posteo.de
1 On 03/29/2017 10:42 PM, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > Before doing the wrong decision:
5 > How "secure" is it to use fsck of busybox in a limited environment
6 > (SoC) to check sdcard partitions (etx4) occasionally instead of using
7 > fsck.ext4 ?
8 > Does someone has some experiences with this ?
9 >
10 > Thanks a lot in advance for any help!
11 > Cheers
12 > Meino
13 >
14 >
15 >
16 >
17
18 The fsck applet provided by busybox is just the fsck(8) driver, which
19 calls the fsck.${FSTYPE} command to actually check the filesystem. You
20 still need fsck.ext4/e2fsck from e2fsprogs to actually do the check.
21
22 --
23 Jonathan Callen

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