commonbugs: F21 installer runs e2fsck on all ext volumes at Welcome screen

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 11:58 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> The gist is that F21 installer has issued e2fsck -f -p on *all* ext
> volumes by the time the Welcome+Language has displayed. Thus there's
> no opt out. The Fedora 20 installer doesn't do this, it only does
> resize2fs -P and dump2fs to collect information on all ext volumes,
> which is fast.
> 
> e2fsck -f -p isn't guaranteed to exit quickly at all because preen is
> forced even if the fs is marked clean, and this is issued to all ext
> volumes (I think in sequence rather than in parallel). At a certain
> point any busy e2fsck will hang anaconda.
> 
> The original reporter experienced such a hard freeze due to an
> external with an ext3 volume for which e2fsck wasn't exiting quickly.
> The work around was to disconnect that external drive and re-run the
> installer.
> 
> It's too late to fix for Fedora 21, but it might be worth a Common Bugs.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170803

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