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os-prober package

  1. Bug #683355
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 683355

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NoOp (glgxg) wrote : Re: [Bug 683355] Re: Natty os-prober fails to detect Maverick installation

On 01/25/2011 03:13 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> ext3 or ext4 - they have the same relevant property.
>
> requires recovery - this doesn't necessarily mean requires *manual*
> recovery; the kernel can often do automatic recovery without you knowing
> it. It just means that it wasn't unmounted cleanly.
>
> This may well be happening as a consequence of bug 672177.
>

Interesting... thanks for the reference to 672177. I tried the 'test':
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libc6 && sudo shutdown -r now

->
$ dmesg | grep orphan

and sure enough:

EXT4-fs (sda5 (my Maverick partition)): 14 orphan inodes deleted

I'll join 672177 as well.