update-motd-fsck-at-reboot claims that partitions will be checked even if check is disabled in fstab

And here is an alternative patch

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Thanks for you work on this patch but, I think the cut command is incorrect "cut -s -f 2,6", I believe you want "cut -s -f 1,6". I say this as ext_partitions is the following on my system:

 $ mount | awk '$5 ~ /^ext(2|3|4)$/ { print $1 }'
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root
/dev/mapper/virtual--vg-sec--machine
/dev/sda1

and

 $ grep -v '^#' /etc/fstab | tr -s ' ' '\t' | cut -s -f 2,6
/ 1
/boot 2
none 0
none 0
/mnt/sec-machines 1

while:

 $ grep -v '^#' /etc/fstab | tr -s ' ' '\t' | cut -s -f 1,6
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root 1
UUID=1422b209-8540-4bf6-9852-bb5a1181ce54 2
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1 0
/dev/mapper/cryptswap1 0
/dev/mapper/virtual--vg-sec--machine 1

Does that make sense to you?

Thanks for the review. With the cut command I want to select the mount point and not the device. The device is known inside the loop from "$part" but there are several ways to name the device in /etc/fstab (device, UUID, label). It is unknown which version is used for the partition in question. On your last output you can see the problem with several device names and one UUID. Therefore it is easier to determine the fstab line using the mount point, and that is at field 2. So the output of

grep -v '^#' /etc/fstab | tr -s ' ' '\t' | cut -s -f 2,6

should be the mount points and the pass numbers.

Ah, I see what I missed now. Thanks for the clarification, I'll get your change added shortly.

This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 0.154

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update-notifier (0.154) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Do not say that a partition will be checked when the check is disabled in
    fstab. Thanks to Nils Kassube for the patch. (LP: #1282760)
  * Use print function instead of statement (LP: #1256759)
  * Increase the poll interval from 5 seconds to 180 (LP: #1227000)
 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:14:23 -0700