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From: tuxic@××××××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] busybox fsck vs. fsck.ext4 ... experiences?
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 03:10:24
Message-Id: 20170331031009.ljxf76w5v4um3ge2@solfire
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] busybox fsck vs. fsck.ext4 ... experiences? by Jonathan Callen
1 On 03/30 06:49, Jonathan Callen wrote:
2 > On 03/29/2017 10:42 PM, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
3 > > Hi,
4 > >
5 > > Before doing the wrong decision:
6 > > How "secure" is it to use fsck of busybox in a limited environment
7 > > (SoC) to check sdcard partitions (etx4) occasionally instead of using
8 > > fsck.ext4 ?
9 > > Does someone has some experiences with this ?
10 > >
11 > > Thanks a lot in advance for any help!
12 > > Cheers
13 > > Meino
14 > >
15 > >
16 > >
17 > >
18 >
19 > The fsck applet provided by busybox is just the fsck(8) driver, which calls
20 > the fsck.${FSTYPE} command to actually check the filesystem. You still need
21 > fsck.ext4/e2fsck from e2fsprogs to actually do the check.
22 >
23 > --
24 > Jonathan Callen
25 >
26
27 Hi Jonathan,
28
29 thanks for your reply! :)
30
31 That means, that one or both of the other binaries have to be
32 somewhere on the sdcard...
33 I have to search deeper ;)
34
35 Cheers
36 Meino

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