[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#568251: Please support fsck on shutdown

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.87dsf-8
Severity: wishlist
File: /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh

Hi,

recently we discussed the anoyance that is fsck during boot on irc and
came to the conclusion that on many systems the shutdown would be a
btter time to do this.

Specifically consider a desktop at work. Every morning you turn it on
and it boots and you have to wait for the boot to finish. Every
evening you type halt and go home without waiting.

Wouldn't it be nice if during shutdown it would run fsck whenever the
next boot would do so? That way the next morning you do not have to
wait for the fsck before starting to work.

Implementation wise I think it would be best if it continous the
shutdown if fsck fails and let the user handle that case by a repeated
fsck during the next boot.

MfG
	Goswin

PS: It might even check / too after mounting it read-only again, right?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.5-book-1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils                     8.4-1      GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils                   3.2.2      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-5   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                         2.16.2-0   Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysv-rc                       2.87dsf-8  System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils                2.87dsf-8  System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs                     1.41.9-1   ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  psmisc                        22.10-1    utilities that use the proc file s

initscripts suggests no packages.

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