#605446 add progress indicators

Package:
dosfstools
Source:
dosfstools
Description:
utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems
Submitter:
Date:
2014-11-16 17:57:13 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#605446#5
Date:
2010-11-30 00:03:47 UTC
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To:
Several fsck operations take a long time, e.g.,
# fsck.vfat -t -a /dev/sdc1
on a 1 GB flash drive took, it turned out, four minutes.
During that time one does not know if the program will ever finish, nor
does one dare to interrupt it lest the disk be ruined, etc. Nor does one
dare to mount or remove ones disk. So maybe progress indicators should
be printed. OK, I discovered -l. I see fsck has -C ...