TLDR: There are pre-installed systems using 10.04 + ext3 in the wild. Mine is. For those users, this bug is a real pita.
This is in my view a very serious usability issue, especially when converting users from Windows who aren't accustomed to that kind of thing. My story: I've bought a pre-installed pc with 10.04 and (reasonably conservative attitude at that time) ext3 as pre-installed file-system - I saw that only after I pressed the power-button for the first time. Pre-boot fsck is unnerving, because it takes a lot of time when using ext3 (different to ext4 - my previous pc run similar hardware, because it wasn't preinstalled). I'm quite sure that a lot of people who bought their preinstalled systems some time ago will regard this bug as a hassle. Not alienating them should be a prime priority in my view. Hence, I would like the community to ponder the issue that there may be a - on some scale - significant number of users bothered by this bug using 10.04+ext3. From my perspective, we shouldn't just recommend that those users reinstall 10.04+ext4. That's, for them, probably quite close to the windows experience they tried to escape. The user, I guess, sees no difference between executing fsck at the 29th shutdown rather than the 30th boot. The problem may be that So I don't want to read further comments like 'you should have installed ext4 right away'. The users I have in view may rather prefer to use some other OS again instead of voicing their concers here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368425 Title: fsck should run on shutdown, not startup To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/368425/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
