Package: sysvinit Version: 2.86.ds1-57 Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line ***
Don't force users to wait for / to finish running a scheduled fsck (every X days or Y boots) before they can start using the system. If I hit Ctrl+C during a / scan, the / partition is left read-only, and the system has problems booting up and takes a long time. I've discussed this a bit on the Debian Users mailing list. Here is the thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/06/msg00833.html I'm going to file some related feature requests against the e2fsprogs package (will follow up this feature request with the bug number). Here are some sysvinit-specific features requests. Let me know if I should file these as feature requests against other packages instead: 1) Allow users to temporarily bypass fsck Give users a warning before starting a scheduled fsck. Let them press a key to bypass it this time (it will run at the next boot). 2) Let users cleanly interrupt bootup fsck Users should be allowed to interrupt a scheduled / fsck, without leaving the / partition readonly. 3) Let the user run fscks (scheduled or user-forced) at other times besides boot. eg: 3.1) During shutdown, after the disks are unmounted, but before the system is halted. 3.2) During bootup (same time as "shutdown -rF", but the system will power off immediately after that) 3.3) During shutdown/reboot (and then a power off, as above), but only if the partitions had a scheduled fsck. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_ZA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages sysvinit depends on: ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-57 Scripts for initializing and shutt ii libc6 2.7-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.59-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libsepol1 2.0.25-1 Security Enhanced Linux policy lib ii sysv-rc 2.86.ds1-57 System-V-like runlevel change mech ii sysvinit-utils 2.86.ds1-57 System-V-like utilities sysvinit recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
