fsck (or initlog) result codes

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Feb 5 15:30:13 UTC 2004


Leonard den Ottolander (leonard at den.ottolander.nl) said: 
> I suspect this might have to do with the fsck return codes being wrongly
> interpreted. Any value larger than 1 is considered a failure by the
> script.
> 
> With an fsck result code of 3 however the system passes the next fsck
> with no errors whatsoever. Could it be that fsck's result code on
> failure actually is -1? Or any other value? Or does initlog (via which
> fsck is called) somehow change the result value?

It shouldn't change it, no.

Bill





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