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As far as I know, there is no design spec for the startup process, and no designer assigned to it. In the meantime...
An automatic filesystem check being interactive makes less and less sense over time. (As the sheer number of files on a device increases, and the proportion of apps that are document-based decreases, you're less and less likely to recognize a file by its pathname.) And it makes *much* less sense on a phone, where you barely see the filesystem at all, so the probability that you can make an informed decision about fixing an individual file is pretty much zero.
So, in the "minimal fsck reveals an error" case, I suggest just triggering a fsck -y. Don't make it interactive. Ideally, add text something like "Repairing…" to the startup screen, or (during string freeze) vary the visual design of the startup screen in *some* tasteful way, to minimize the proportion of people who will think that the phone has got stuck while starting up and try to fix it by holding down the power button.
For the "immediately pull the latest full image and reboot for flashing" case, you might find useful the design for a failed system update. You'd need to change the text a bit. <https:/