On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 05:41:29PM +0200, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: > The periodic ext3 fs checks at boot are driving me nuts. I know they can be > disabled. > > Couldn't they be performed at shutdown instead of boot? [...] > These would be the steps, from boot: > > 0. boot > 1. is fs dirty? then fsck and prompt user how to fix errors [...] > This way, the user would never have to wait at boot, and the > filesystem would still be checked periodically.
No. > What do you think? I would prefer the following: If a fsck at boot time occurs - kill the splash screen (usually the computer boots in 3 minutes, now it's still unchanged after 10 minutes. Something must be broken. Poweroff/on. Does still not boot. Damn Linux, doesn't work. Changing OS because Linux doesn't work for me). - present an option "you can interrupt the current fsck by pressing ESC. This means the fsck is repeated upon next boot." - As user, I know what will happen next time I boot and prepare for it. If you trust hardware and file systems, you might want to present an easy option to the user to disable those checks alltogether. I wouldn't recommend that. Rasmus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
