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[David Clayton <85291@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

C,mon developers, this is another one of these EMBARRASSING things that
gives Linux a bad name.

All removable devices should be auto fsck'd as a strict policy to ensure
that the user has the best chance of accessing and saving their data. At
least give people a warning and the option to fix things.

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Title:
  filesystems are never fsck'ed if they live on removable USB disks

Status in “gnome-volume-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I don't know which package to assign this bug to, and sorry if it has
  been reported before - I couldn't find a report.

  ext2/3 filesystems are regulary fsck'ed after a given number of boots
  if those filesystems are part of the fixed disks. However removable
  USB disks (I can only check for those, but I guess firewire at al.
  also share this) are never fsck'ed automatically. This might me
  dangerous because they are much more likely to be removed incorrectly
  (w/o unmounting) and are attached/reattached frequently. I just
  realized that my external disk was mounted hundreds of times without
  ever being checked (and  am sure that despite trying to be
  responsible, I sometimes yanked the cable w/o unmounting)

  NOTE: 
  i've removed the ext3 case because this also applies to some other filesystem types as described in duplicated bugs.

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