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

[Marko]

On 18 loka 2006, 14:50, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h... at debian.org>
wrote:
> The point is:fsckduringshutdownmust be optional.

Yes.

I just had things to do, but instead spent 20 minutes waiting for my
PC to start up.

I'd deeply appreciate I had the option to let it fsck when I walk away
from the PC so I can always work when I walk to the PC.

It could offer to fsck on shutdown a few days or mounts before fsck.
After most users of disks are dead and disks synced, it could wait for
yes/no answer for a few seconds while allowing the user to cancel the
fsck for fast shutdown or fsck immediately. It could even have a
configuration option for which I prefer it to do if I do not respond.
Maybe some magic to see if I am on battery, failing UPS, or well
supplied in for power (maybe configurable command it could execute for
exit code to tell it what to do, /bin/true or false if no magic
required) would be nice, but not mandatory.

It would also be nice, but not mandatory, if the GUI desktop could
offer fsck instead of falling to text mode question. Create some flag
file or other flag to tell there is no need anymore to ask the user in
text mode.