Fedora 14 yum update and NTFS check

[lemons]

Hi guys,

I thought I should let you know that there appears to be a problem with a package in a recent Fedora 14 yum update which causes fsck.ntfs to return an error code because it has "unsupported cases", whatever that means.

This has happened on both of my F14 computers which have an NTFS partition in fstab with the last field (fs_passno) set as 2 (as they are not boot or system partitions for Linux; they are the Windows partitions).

The way to fix this is to simply change the last field to 0, although now the filesystem wont be checked (but Windows should have a go anyway!).

I know that there is not a problem with the partitions, as forcing Windows to do a chkdsk comes out fine. Here is an example if I try it manually on an unmounted NTFS partition:

[root@localhost ~]# fsck /dev/sdb3
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.18
Unsupported: replay_log()
Unsupported: check_volume()
Checking 307968 MFT records.
Unsupported cases found.
[root@localhost ~]# echo $?
1
[root@localhost ~]#

As you can see, the check seems to be fine apart from these "unsupported" messages, so the checker returns an error code of 1, so Linux refuses to boot, dropping you to a root shell. I had to use a rescue disk to mount the Linux partition and change fstab.

I can't find anything about this on Google, and I don't know why; I cannot be the only person who has encountered this problem. Is anyone aware of this?

[Rubberman]

This sounds like something that should be reported to the Fedora user forums.