Bug#398269: initscripts: USB messages interleave fsck's

[Dmitry Bogatov]

[2006-11-13 00:58] Dan Jacobson <jidanni at jidanni.org>
> These days I see upon boot:
> ...has been mounted xx times, check forced.
> Then comes the messages from my USB flash cards being mounted.
> Then comes the ========== xx% dancing cursor progress stuff.
>
> The interleaving happens so quick that all one sees is the latter two.
> It would be best if the first and third should not appear separate.
>
> $ cat /var/log/fsck/*
> Log of fsck -C -V -R -A -a 
> Fri Nov 10 06:55:43 2006
>
> fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> Checking all file systems.
> [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /home] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/hda6 
> /dev/hda6: clean, 7446/542720 files, 3377046/4339408 blocks
> [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /var] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/hda7 
> /dev/hda7: clean, 16249/678912 files, 2484321/5428048 blocks
> [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /usr] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/hda8 
> /dev/hda8: clean, 236730/814400 files, 1093496/1627282 blocks
> [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /var/cache/wwwoffle] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/hda9 
> /dev/hda9 has been mounted 32 times without being checked, check forced.
> /dev/hda9: 8497/950272 files (2.9% non-contiguous), 1412592/1899442 blocks
>
> Fri Nov 10 06:56:21 2006
> ----------------
> Log of fsck -C -a -V -t ext3 /dev/hda1 
> Fri Nov 10 06:55:39 2006
>
> fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/hda1 
> /dev/hda1: clean, 14820/81280 files, 196287/325048 blocks
>
> Fri Nov 10 06:55:39 2006
>
> P.S., the above files match / $/, i.e., blanks appended.
> P.S., udev is installed.

Messages from "USB flash cards" are dmesg, I believe. We can control
them with `setterm --msg on/off'. We could disable them before running
fsck and enable back after. Any thoughts, what disadvantage it may have?
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