I really don't want to go through the hassle of joining a mailing list, getting 50 mails per day, and discussing this one week long (esp. since I'm sure that there will be incredibly many people who think that this feature is necessary and that it's no problem at all to go to the command line and turn that feature off, although actually only experts will be able to do that). I guess I will wait some more, get more annoyed, and then my motivation is high enough to start that flame war... :)
> It is far better then trying to explain to them how to manually run 'fsck' from a LiveCD, etc. IMHO, it's better to tell someone what to do when he has a problem instead of impose a problem on all of us. I bet that the number of people with a problem that couldn't be fixed by running fsck on failure is far smaller than those without a problem, at all. > Windows absolutely runs a check as well as OSX. Remember back in the day, pre-XP, you would boot to the "annoying" ScanDisk. Or even with XP, with the lovely blue disk checking screen (and no that doesn't ONLY run due to a bad shutdown). The Windows scan takes forever... I've never seen that blue disk checking screen in the last two years (though, I remember having it seen before). I'm serious. Maybe that's because I used NTFS... Even when I crashed the system it didn't need a check. Seriously, I'm not making this up. > Hope this better relays the methodology behind 'fsck', It is far better to run an auto-check, then wait and have a problem. Thanks for taking the time to explain this. I do agree that a check could be necessary after a crash, but the check, as configured by default, is running far too often. The fact that there exists a manual on how to turn that feature off (targeted at laptop users) should actually make people suspicious. Could you please at least consider running fsck less often (by a factor of ten would be nice :)? -- every 21st boot my system gets checked https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/133115 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs