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[Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Recently I had to support an Ubuntu-using friend whose external FAT disk
was not mounting because it had previously been unplugged without
unmounting. I told him repeatedly about the need to unmount, but
sometimes he still forgets or it just happens by accident.  This is a
casual user who does not know about fsck; even if he did he would
probably be overwhelmed by the process. Had he not asked me, he would
have considered the disk dead and the data lost.

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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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