On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 21:30 +0000, Luke wrote: > Issues are as follows: > > 1: if someone has not set a root password but is asked for a root > password for the shell, they cannot fix the filesystem and can only try > to skip it with ^d. Unless the shell does not ask for a root password > when none or a random one is set, this is real trouble, as mountall > won't let them try to boot. > If they do not have a root password set, they are given the shell straight away (this is the default configuration so well tested :p)
> 2: If someone has a big /home partition with errors they should still be > able to boot and put off fsck repairs because they may not have 15 > minutes to wait on a 160GB disk being checked if they are say, checking > email before going out the door. An end user with a 1TB drive will have > real trouble is they run into, say, the clock/utc fsck bug. > fsck skipping is coming back, don't worry (that code is basically unchanged since jaunty - just in a separate branch while we deal with the big bugs) Scott -- Scott James Remnant [email protected] -- separate /var and /var/tmp tmpfs dependency loop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/431040 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
