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"Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem" - Should I be worried?

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I was just now looking through /var/log/syslog and I found these line which worried me:

ufs: You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem

May  5 09:06:09 Bath-Towel kernel: [  425.626221] 

May  5 09:06:09 Bath-Towel kernel: [  425.626221] mount -t ufs -o ufstype=sun|sunx86|44bsd|ufs2|5xbsd|old|hp|nextstep|nextstep-cd|openstep ...

May  5 09:06:09 Bath-Towel kernel: [  425.626221] 

May  5 09:06:09 Bath-Towel kernel: [  425.626221] >>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is ufstype=old

What is it, what does it mean, and what should I do about it (if anything)? If more information is needed to answer my question, please just comment and I will provide it.

OS Information:

Description:    Ubuntu 15.04

Release:    15.04

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answered 2 Years ago umplegitimat · Accepted Answer

This message could be generated when the user or a script runs the update-grub script, which would explain why you get it after kernel update. From what i understood, update-grub tries to dynamically find all the possible partitions and operating systems in them for generating the most complete grub.conf file. one of the options(one of the last ones actually) that update-grub tries for mounting an unknown partition, is ufs. This is a bug however as it could be misleading and confuse the user.

More info: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1374759