Bug #8070
GNOME Disks doesn't have an option to check filesystems
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Description
This used to be the “Check Filesystem” button in Disk Utility but I couldn’t find it in GNOME Disks 3.12.
I found a couple of other people complaining about this online, so I don’t think that I simply missed it.
So this breaks the instructions to check the file system of the persistent volume:
https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/persistence/change_passphrase/
Will this feature be back at some point in GNOME Disks or shall we go for an alternative solution?
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Rejected | 2014-10-23 |
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#1 Updated by intrigeri 2014-10-11 11:09:05
> This used to be the “Check Filesystem” button in Disk Utility but I couldn’t find it in GNOME Disks 3.12.
I couldn’t find it either.
> Will this feature be back at some point in GNOME Disks
There’s no upstream version greater than 3.12.1, so there won’t be any new version in Jessie, and I doubt any newer version will be easily backportable.
> or shall we go for an alternative solution?
Yes, after checking why they removed this option (maybe it’s now done automatically?) and for upstream bug reports about it.
#2 Updated by sajolida 2014-10-12 01:14:15
The only thing I found is this one:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676555#c2
So it seems like they removed this on purpose, instead of providing a
not-so-good experience.
Regarding our documentation what shall we do? Replace that step with
`fsck` run from terminal?
#3 Updated by sajolida 2014-10-12 01:17:38
- Type of work changed from Research to Discuss
#4 Updated by intrigeri 2014-10-12 01:30:01
> Regarding our documentation what shall we do? Replace that step with `fsck` run from terminal?
Yep, that would be the fallback solution. Unless gparted knows how to do that?
#5 Updated by sajolida 2014-10-22 09:40:38
Yes, it does and I tested it:
http://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual#gparted-Check-partition
But then:
- Do we want to have two graphical utilities for disk management?
- Shall we consider replacing Disks by GParted only because of that?
- Shall we instead give command line instructions for that use case,
which isn’t very common anyway?
#6 Updated by intrigeri 2014-10-22 10:04:29
> Yes, it does and I tested it:
:)
> * Do we want to have two graphical utilities for disk management?
I don’t think we need to ship GParted just to satisfy this pretty rare usecase. Documenting that one has to install GParted first seems good enough to me.
> * Shall we consider replacing Disks by GParted only because of that?
I don’t think so. GNOME Disks is better integrated in the desktop environment, and I’m pretty sure it’s better for a few other usecases.
> * Shall we instead give command line instructions for that use case, which isn’t very common anyway?
That would be my second choice, but I’ve not tested this feature in GParted myself, so I don’t know how much easier it makes the task compared to doing it on the command line.
#7 Updated by sajolida 2014-10-23 06:55:58
- Status changed from Confirmed to Resolved
> I don’t think we need to ship GParted just to satisfy this pretty rare usecase. Documenting that one has to install GParted first seems good enough to me.
Ah! I didn’t think about that… Let’s do this.
#8 Updated by sajolida 2014-10-23 06:58:27
- related to
Bug #8169: Document how to check the file system of the persistence using GParted for Jessie added
#9 Updated by spriver 2015-11-24 04:32:03
Hi,
I’m working on ticket Bug #8043 atm and stumbled accross the missing feature for checking the disks with the new GNOME Disks. (corresponding page: https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/persistence/check_file_system/index.en.html)
Should I document on this page that GParted is needed for checking disks (and how to install)? Or should we describe how to check a disk using the CLI and this would be sufficient enough? Or maybe both?
EDIT:
My mistake, I did not see the related ticket. I will grab it