Bug#393312: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#393312: fsck should run at shutdown, not startup, when possible

[Jason Spiro]

2006/10/18, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com>:
> 2006/10/18, Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4 at gmail.com>:
> > 2006/10/16, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh at debian.org>:
> > >
> > > This has to be made optional.  Many people want their machines to shut down
> > > *fast* far more than they want their machines to boot up fast.
> > >
> >
> > Is this true even for modern home machines?
> >
> > If so, why is it true?
> >
>
> Think of all the laptop users out there.
> FWIW I don't like the idea to run fsck on shutdown.
>
OK, so why not check if machines are desktops or laptops and do fsck
on shutdown on desktops only?

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