Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-31 Thread Mart van de Wege
Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com writes: On 12/30/2014 5:49 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: The people there have enough to do at work, and like to have a life outside of work. Believer it or not, not everyone is capable (or interested) in spending

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-31 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/31/2014 4:20 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com writes: On 12/30/2014 5:49 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: The people there have enough to do at work, and like to have a life outside of work. Believer it or not, not

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 31 dec 14, 09:45:53, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I've never said anyone should be obliged to maintain Debian the way I want. I said the way they are going is not acceptable, so my clients are changing distributions. Period. I think the point some are trying to make is that Debian's

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-31 Thread Mike McGinn
On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 09:45:53 Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/31/2014 4:20 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com writes: On 12/30/2014 5:49 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: The people there have enough to do at work, and

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-31 Thread Simon
On 31 December 2014 18:10:00 GMT+00:00, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 31 dec 14, 09:45:53, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I've never said anyone should be obliged to maintain Debian the way I want. I said the way they are going is not acceptable, so my clients are changing

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 1/01/2015 5:10 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 31 dec 14, 09:45:53, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I've never said anyone should be obliged to maintain Debian the way I want. I said the way they are going is not acceptable, so my clients are

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-31 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/31/2014 1:10 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 31 dec 14, 09:45:53, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I've never said anyone should be obliged to maintain Debian the way I want. I said the way they are going is not acceptable, so my clients are changing distributions. Period. I think the point

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-31 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/31/2014 1:34 PM, Mike McGinn wrote: On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 09:45:53 Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/31/2014 4:20 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com writes: On 12/30/2014 5:49 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-31 Thread Mart van de Wege
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: Of course, this will not fare well with people that chose GNU/Linux because of the wrong impression that it is without cost. [1] possibly even more so than other distributions, provided the desired changes don't go against the Social

Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 29 dec 14, 22:06:55, Jerry Stuckle wrote: No, from what I've seen, the default is to do preventative fscks, depending on the number of boots (and time? I'm not sure). Could you please show us where you've seen this? For the record, again, from the e2fsprogs changelog: e2fsprogs

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 29 dec 14, 18:32:28, Marc Auslander wrote: Long ago, I decided that inconvenient fsck's were not what I needed. And that cancelling them was not an option - I run quasi headless so there's no way. So - I use tune2fs to set a ridiculous reboot count for automatic fsck. Just for the

Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-30 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/30/2014 5:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 29 dec 14, 22:06:55, Jerry Stuckle wrote: No, from what I've seen, the default is to do preventative fscks, depending on the number of boots (and time? I'm not sure). Could you please show us where you've seen this? For the record,

Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I should also add - that's why they are looking at other distros now. They are planning to stay on Wheezy as long as possible. It will probably take two years for them to get another distro ready for production. If switching to systemd is their main

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-30 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/30/2014 at 09:45 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I should also add - that's why they are looking at other distros now. They are planning to stay on Wheezy as long as possible. It will probably take two years for them to get another distro ready for

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-30 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/30/2014 9:45 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I should also add - that's why they are looking at other distros now. They are planning to stay on Wheezy as long as possible. It will probably take two years for them to get another distro ready for

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: The people there have enough to do at work, and like to have a life outside of work. Believer it or not, not everyone is capable (or interested) in spending their life working on Linux. If Debian is important to their business, then they should hire

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: The people there have enough to do at work, and like to have a life outside of work. Believer it or not, not everyone is capable (or interested) in spending their life working on

Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-30 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/30/2014 5:49 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: The people there have enough to do at work, and like to have a life outside of work. Believer it or not, not everyone is capable (or interested) in spending their life working on Linux. If Debian is

Fwd: Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-30 Thread William Unruh
On 12/30/2014 5:49 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: The people there have enough to do at work, and like to have a life outside of work. Believer it or not, not everyone is capable (or interested) in spending their life working on Linux. If Debian is

Re: Fwd: Re: Continuing to use SysV; LTS [Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?]

2014-12-30 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/30/2014 10:07 PM, William Unruh wrote: On 12/30/2014 5:49 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: The people there have enough to do at work, and like to have a life outside of work. Believer it or not, not everyone is capable (or interested) in spending

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-29 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/29/2014 1:22 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/28/2014 10:58 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/28/2014 5:54 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 00:20:20 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:02:52 -0500 Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/11/2014 1:23 PM, Brian wrote:

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-29 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/29/2014 06:44 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/29/2014 1:22 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/28/2014 10:58 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/28/2014 5:54 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 00:20:20 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:02:52 -0500 Jerry Stuckle

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-29 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/29/2014 06:44 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: This is a Debian User list. Why don't you want bugs which affect Debian users discussed here? And that's what I have seen here - at least until you started complaining about the thread. I don't think I'm the only one complaining about this Saint

Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-29 Thread William Unruh
Path: eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd? Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:50:02 +0100 Message-ID: ocnya

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-29 Thread Marc Auslander
Long ago, I decided that inconvenient fsck's were not what I needed. And that cancelling them was not an option - I run quasi headless so there's no way. So - I use tune2fs to set a ridiculous reboot count for automatic fsck. Then a run a cron job the does a reboot with the -F option once a

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-29 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/29/2014 1:31 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/29/2014 06:44 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: This is a Debian User list. Why don't you want bugs which affect Debian users discussed here? And that's what I have seen here - at least until you started complaining about the thread. I don't think

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-29 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/29/2014 1:27 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/29/2014 06:44 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/29/2014 1:22 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/28/2014 10:58 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/28/2014 5:54 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 00:20:20 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:02:52

Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-29 Thread William Unruh
On 12/29/2014 1:27 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/29/2014 06:44 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/29/2014 1:22 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/28/2014 10:58 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/28/2014 5:54 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 00:20:20 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:02:52

Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-29 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/29/2014 9:33 PM, William Unruh wrote: On 12/29/2014 1:27 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/29/2014 06:44 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/29/2014 1:22 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/28/2014 10:58 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/28/2014 5:54 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 00:20:20

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-29 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/29/2014 08:51 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/29/2014 1:27 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/29/2014 06:44 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/29/2014 1:22 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/28/2014 10:58 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/28/2014 5:54 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 00:20:20

Re: Fwd: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-29 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/29/2014 9:33 PM, William Unruh wrote: On 12/29/2014 1:27 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/29/2014 06:44 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/29/2014 1:22 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/28/2014 10:58 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/28/2014 5:54 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 00:20:20

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-29 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/29/2014 10:05 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/29/2014 08:51 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/29/2014 1:27 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/29/2014 06:44 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/29/2014 1:22 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/28/2014 10:58 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/28/2014 5:54 AM, Lisi Reisz

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 28 December 2014 00:20:20 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:02:52 -0500 Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/11/2014 1:23 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 12:11:26 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I often give presentations with my notebook. If I'm lucky, I

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-28 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/28/2014 5:54 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 00:20:20 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:02:52 -0500 Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/11/2014 1:23 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 12:11:26 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I often give

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-28 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/28/2014 10:58 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/28/2014 5:54 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 00:20:20 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:02:52 -0500 Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/11/2014 1:23 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 12:11:26 -0500,

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-27 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:02:52 -0500 Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/11/2014 1:23 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 12:11:26 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I often give presentations with my notebook. If I'm lucky, I get 10-15 minutes to set up. If I'm not, less than 5

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-27 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/27/2014 7:20 PM, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:02:52 -0500 Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/11/2014 1:23 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 12:11:26 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I often give presentations with my notebook. If I'm lucky, I get 10-15

Re: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-22 Thread alberto fuentes
Pretty damn inconvenient and un-discoverable if you ask me. So I think this deserves a bug report. Don't get carried away and start typing. #758902 Yeah, This bug is bound to bite everybody at least one... probably more Severity of this regresion bug is wishlist and maintainer doesn't

Re: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-22 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:22:09AM +0100, alberto fuentes wrote: Pretty damn inconvenient and un-discoverable if you ask me. So I think this deserves a bug report. Don't get carried away and start typing. #758902 Yeah, This bug is bound to bite everybody at least one... probably

Re: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-22 Thread Brian
On Mon 22 Dec 2014 at 11:58:55 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:22:09AM +0100, alberto fuentes wrote: Pretty damn inconvenient and un-discoverable if you ask me. So I think this deserves a bug report. Don't get carried away and start typing. #758902

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 13, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: 15 seconds extra, a couple times a year isn't all THAT bad. FWIW, I think I found out why ext4 fsck's faster than ext3 (or the other exts). Seems ext4 only checks the part of the filesystem that's been

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-14 Thread Arele
El Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 09:45:33PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU escribió: On Vi, 12 dec 14, 20:07:26, Patrick Bartek wrote: I don't know how effective this check is though. But I've NEVER had a dirty partition reported in the past 8 years or so. The nice thing is it is a very fast check. My

Re: xfs and other filesystems (was Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?)

2014-12-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 dec 14, 18:38:36, The Wanderer wrote: Serious question - I know it has its advantages for particular scenarios, but I don't know how it stacks up in general-purpose use, and I've never run across an accounting of its disadvantages in a context which struck me as reliable. As far

Re: xfs and other filesystems (was Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?)

2014-12-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 14 Dec 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 13 dec 14, 18:38:36, The Wanderer wrote: Serious question - I know it has its advantages for particular scenarios, but I don't know how it stacks up in general-purpose use, and I've never run across an accounting of its disadvantages in a

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Curt
On 2014-12-12, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: You have a very strange idea of what constitutes data. Here are some more data (or non-data if you prefer :) ), He also says nothing about what forced him to reinstall so many times, nor why he concludes it is due to an absence of fsck file

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com [2014-12-12 20:07 -0800]: [...] I prefer to manually fsck. Easier. I just do this as root before shutdown -r now: touch /forcefsck On booting, fsck is run on all partitions, then the empty file forcefsck is deleted. So, this only works for that

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: * Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com [2014-12-12 20:07 -0800]: [...] I prefer to manually fsck. Easier. I just do this as root before shutdown -r now: touch /forcefsck On booting, fsck is run on all partitions,

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 Dec 2014 at 20:26:02 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: * Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com [2014-12-12 20:07 -0800]: [...] I prefer to manually fsck. Easier. I just do this as root before shutdown -r now:

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Joel Rees writes: On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: shutdown(8) -F Force fsck on reboot. Sshhh. Don't remind us to read the man pages. By the way the -F flag causes /forcefsck to appear -- /\ ___

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Jape Person
On 12/13/2014 10:31 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Joel Rees writes: On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: shutdown(8) -F Force fsck on reboot. Sshhh. Don't remind us to read the man pages. By the way the -F flag causes

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Curt
On 2014-12-13, Jape Person jap...@comcast.net wrote: Would anyone happen to know if plans are afoot to eliminate use of /forcefsck? I haven't the slightest idea, but I read somewhere recently that it might be preferable to go the kernel parameter route, which avoids writing to a potentially

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Jape Person
On 12/13/2014 12:26 PM, Curt wrote: On 2014-12-13, Jape Person jap...@comcast.net wrote: Would anyone happen to know if plans are afoot to eliminate use of /forcefsck? I haven't the slightest idea, but I read somewhere recently that it might be preferable to go the kernel parameter route,

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com [2014-12-12 20:07 -0800]: [...] I prefer to manually fsck. Easier. I just do this as root before shutdown -r now: touch /forcefsck On booting, fsck is run on all partitions, then the empty file

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 dec 14, 20:07:26, Patrick Bartek wrote: I don't know how effective this check is though. But I've NEVER had a dirty partition reported in the past 8 years or so. The nice thing is it is a very fast check. My 16GB / checked in less than 5 seconds, and the 205GB /home in about 10

xfs and other filesystems (was Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?)

2014-12-13 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/13/2014 at 02:45 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 12 dec 14, 20:07:26, Patrick Bartek wrote: I don't know how effective this check is though. But I've NEVER had a dirty partition reported in the past 8 years or so. The nice thing is it is a very fast check. My 16GB / checked in less

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 12 dec 14, 20:07:26, Patrick Bartek wrote: I don't know how effective this check is though. But I've NEVER had a dirty partition reported in the past 8 years or so. The nice thing is it is a very fast check. My 16GB / checked in less

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Mart van de Wege
Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca writes: users equally well. If it does, the relevance of having a ^C at boot time for stopping an fsck might be open to examination. The issue goes beyond fsck. It's important to be able to interrupt various long-running operations (typically waiting

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 07:48:16PM +, Brian wrote: On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 14:02:52 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/11/2014 1:23 PM, Brian wrote: For less work to set up than the previous method you want to take a look at

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Jerry Stuckle writes: This means fsck will never run because I don't use the laptop outside of those times. Plan to use it outside of these times as a maintenance call. Or check the discussion for a nice suggestion to make the fsck on max mount or time exceeded work to do what you want and

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Ric Moore
Is it just me or on an ext4 file system when was the last time anyone had an fsck? It's been ages since I last had one. Inquiring minds, Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 11 dec 14, 19:16:03, Reco wrote: Note that Ubuntu limits sudo-allows-all configuration to the first created user by default. As does Debian (if a root password isn't set). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Joel Rees
2014/12/11 19:39 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com: On Jo, 11 dec 14, 18:16:05, Joel Rees wrote: Odd. The last time I booted my wheezy-by-install system, it did an automatic fsck. I did nothing in particular to enable that. I think you are reading things into the

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 12 December 2014 11:43:41 Ric Moore wrote: Is it just me or on an ext4 file system when was the last time anyone had an fsck? 2 days ago. Automatic. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/12/2014 6:02 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Jerry Stuckle writes: This means fsck will never run because I don't use the laptop outside of those times. Plan to use it outside of these times as a maintenance call. Or check the discussion for a nice suggestion to make the fsck on

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
Atomic in the original word meaning can't be cut, and stopping is a form of cutting. Rolling back is a strategy to permit stopping an atomic operation, but I am unsure thi can be done always. The fact that *some* actions need to be atomic doesn't prevent interrupting various (other)

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20141211_1257+0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 10 dec 14, 15:32:55, Jape Person wrote: But that information plus the linked items (in the info output) grub-reboot and grub-editenv may get me started toward a solution. I just thought of a different approach, using the fact that one

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Brian
On Fri 12 Dec 2014 at 10:11:53 +, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 07:48:16PM +, Brian wrote: On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 14:02:52 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/11/2014 1:23 PM, Brian wrote: For less work to set up than the previous method you want to take a

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Brian
On Fri 12 Dec 2014 at 09:36:33 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/12/2014 6:02 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Jerry Stuckle writes: This means fsck will never run because I don't use the laptop outside of those times. Plan to use it outside of these times as a maintenance call. Or

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/12/2014 12:07 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 12 Dec 2014 at 09:36:33 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/12/2014 6:02 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Jerry Stuckle writes: This means fsck will never run because I don't use the laptop outside of those times. Plan to use it outside of these

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Brian
On Fri 12 Dec 2014 at 13:54:39 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/12/2014 12:07 PM, Brian wrote: The ^C method only postpones the fsck to another time. The issue of when to run one remains. Which is fine. I can run it during the day when I'm not under a deadline. The problem is only

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/12/2014 2:34 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 12 Dec 2014 at 13:54:39 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/12/2014 12:07 PM, Brian wrote: The ^C method only postpones the fsck to another time. The issue of when to run one remains. Which is fine. I can run it during the day when I'm not under a

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 22:04:56 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20141211_1332+, Brian wrote: Multiply your experience by 10,000 or 100,000 similar accounts and a picture begins to emerge and you can decide on how much confidence you can place in a conclusion based on the accumulated

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/12/2014 6:47 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 22:04:56 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20141211_1332+, Brian wrote: Multiply your experience by 10,000 or 100,000 similar accounts and a picture begins to emerge and you can decide on how much confidence you can place in a

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Brian wrote: On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 22:04:56 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20141211_1332+, Brian wrote: Multiply your experience by 10,000 or 100,000 similar accounts and a picture begins to emerge and you can decide on how much confidence you can place

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Christian Groessler writes: ^C could be unresponsive nevertheless, the process being stuck in kernel space and thus completely oblivious of the signals thrown at it. This would be a different problem hinting at a kernel bug... Non necessarily a bug. We have to accept that exist

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Mart van de Wege
Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca writes: Actually, it's *always* a surprise. These fsck happen at long enough intervals, that I can never know if it was 4 months ago or 7 months ago, and neither can I remember which laptop/desktop has the delay set to 172 days vs 194 days vs 98 days

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Joel Rees
2014/12/11 3:48 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk: On Wed 10 Dec 2014 at 19:23:07 +0300, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 10/12/2014 14:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Of course, there's also the option of completely disabling automatic fsck (there are several ways to do this), as I understand is

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 10 dec 14, 15:32:55, Jape Person wrote: But that information plus the linked items (in the info output) grub-reboot and grub-editenv may get me started toward a solution. I think at least some of the list subscribers would be grateful for your findings. Kind regards, Andrei --

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 11 dec 14, 18:16:05, Joel Rees wrote: Odd. The last time I booted my wheezy-by-install system, it did an automatic fsck. I did nothing in particular to enable that. I think you are reading things into the documentation that you want to be there. Check filesystem creation date:

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Reco
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 06:16:05PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: 2014/12/11 3:48 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk: On Wed 10 Dec 2014 at 19:23:07 +0300, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 10/12/2014 14:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Of course, there's also the option of completely disabling

RE: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, fsck may take time. Relax, it needs that time. What if I do not have that time, Find it (this includes planning - of infrastructure and procedures if required). Ok, so that means anyone with a nice laptop who wants to do some work just before boarding a plane is now at risk. Just

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Ron
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:07:21 +0100 Mart van de Wege mvdw...@gmail.com wrote: This is like all those people who first moved to Ubuntu back in the day, complaining about not being able to login as root. And how do you keep a multi-user box safe if any user can sudo ? Cheers, Ron. --

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 10 dec 14, 15:32:55, Jape Person wrote: But that information plus the linked items (in the info output) grub-reboot and grub-editenv may get me started toward a solution. I just thought of a different approach, using the fact that one can manipulate the Maximum mount count without

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 10:53:07 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Let fsck run and pray it does not halts claiming it can't fix the problem. When it is started due to an unclean shutdown or something like it, we can plan. When it simply runs because it does that sometimes, no thank you, I would

RE: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Bonno Bloksma writes: Ok, so that means anyone with a nice laptop who wants to do some work just before boarding a plane is now at risk. Just before boarding some plane is the bad time and place for some work. Just had to help someone this morning who had Windows 7 doing updates when

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Dec 2014 at 14:22:59 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20141210_1830+, Brian wrote: On Wed 10 Dec 2014 at 19:23:07 +0300, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 10/12/2014 14:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Of course, there's also the option of completely disabling automatic

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
users equally well. If it does, the relevance of having a ^C at boot time for stopping an fsck might be open to examination. The issue goes beyond fsck. It's important to be able to interrupt various long-running operations (typically waiting for an event) during boot. Stefan --

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Jape Person
On 12/11/2014 05:09 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 10 dec 14, 15:32:55, Jape Person wrote: But that information plus the linked items (in the info output) grub-reboot and grub-editenv may get me started toward a solution. I think at least some of the list subscribers would be grateful for

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Jape Person
On 12/11/2014 05:57 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 10 dec 14, 15:32:55, Jape Person wrote: But that information plus the linked items (in the info output) grub-reboot and grub-editenv may get me started toward a solution. I just thought of a different approach, using the fact that one can

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Stefan Monnier writes: users equally well. If it does, the relevance of having a ^C at boot time for stopping an fsck might be open to examination. The issue goes beyond fsck. It's important to be able to interrupt various long-running operations (typically waiting for an event)

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:51:23 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:07:21 +0100 Mart van de Wege mvdw...@gmail.com wrote: This is like all those people who first moved to Ubuntu back in the day, complaining about not being able to

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
users equally well. If it does, the relevance of having a ^C at boot time for stopping an fsck might be open to examination. The issue goes beyond fsck. It's important to be able to interrupt various long-running operations (typically waiting for an event) during boot. But some

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/11/2014 5:53 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, fsck may take time. Relax, it needs that time. What if I do not have that time, Find it (this includes planning - of infrastructure and procedures if required). Ok, so that means anyone with a nice laptop who wants to do some work just

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 12:11:26 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: If Windows can give you the option as to when to perform a potentially critical (do not shut down!) and long running process, why can't Linux? As far as having the option of an fsck at boot is concerned I've already mentioned grub's

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/11/2014 1:23 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 12:11:26 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: If Windows can give you the option as to when to perform a potentially critical (do not shut down!) and long running process, why can't Linux? As far as having the option of an fsck at boot is

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 14:02:52 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/11/2014 1:23 PM, Brian wrote: For less work to set up than the previous method you want to take a look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799574 To which Lennart responded that is not a good idea.

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:23:10 +0200 Andrei POPESCU sent: snip The root of my sid install was created before that, so I was still getting the periodic check for it. The other ext4 filesystems were newer, so weren't checked (and I didn't even notice it). I've just disabled the automatic

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Jape Person
On 12/11/2014 05:57 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 10 dec 14, 15:32:55, Jape Person wrote: But that information plus the linked items (in the info output) grub-reboot and grub-editenv may get me started toward a solution. I just thought of a different approach, using the fact that one can

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Jape Person
On 12/11/2014 03:37 PM, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:23:10 +0200 Andrei POPESCU sent: snip The root of my sid install was created before that, so I was still getting the periodic check for it. The other ext4 filesystems were newer, so weren't checked (and I didn't even notice it).

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Atomic in the original word meaning can't be cut, and stopping is a form of cutting. Rolling back is a strategy to permit stopping an atomic operation, but I am unsure thi can be done always. -- Gian Uberto Lauri Messaggio inviato da un tablet On 11/dic/2014, at 17:42, Stefan Monnier

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