Feature changed by: Dominik Grafenhofer (dgrafenhofer) Feature #306621, revision 5 Title: Possibility to skip filesystem check at startup openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dominik Grafenhofer (dgrafenhofer) Description: Periodic filesystem checks at startup are important, but take a lot of time. For desktop users it is sometimes importent to startup their computer really fast (e.g. when giving a presentation). It is a nuissance, that these filesystem checks cannot be easily skipped (and postponed for the next startup) like under Ubuntu. Analogous to Ubuntu Linux I therefore propose to have a mechanism in place to stop a (periodic) filesystem check at startup when the escape key is pressed during the check. Discussion: #1: Andrés G. Aragoneses (knocte) (2009-07-01 22:29:57) -1 This feature is *really* one of the reasons why Windows systems are so unstable. What I would vote +1 is for an informative label that tells the user WHY the system is taking so long to start, because there are even users that don't know that the system must be properly shut down. #2: Dominik Grafenhofer (dgrafenhofer) (2009-07-02 07:48:57) @Aragoneses: I think that your argument is invalid, because my proposal is not to skip periodic filesystem checks all together, just to give a possibility to postpone it till the next startup. The number of startups "n" after which a periodic filesystem check is forced is chosen arbitrary anyway, so there should be no harm, when you give the user the oppurtunity to postpone it till startup "n+1". #3: Frank Helbo (fhc) (2009-07-02 14:25:29) With to days hardware with redundancy and predictive analyses and TTS on ext3. The periodic filesystem check should be disabled in the next release. Todays volumes are soo big, that a filesystem check on reboot takes to long to complete. If people still want this feature, thay can turn it on them selfs. For admins it is really a pain in the butt, when you reboot a system remotely, and it takes forever to restart or you are not able to answer a question on the screen do to this auto check. + #4: Dominik Grafenhofer (dgrafenhofer) (2009-07-02 14:40:24) + @Frank Helbo: + It is already possible (but not wise) to disable the periodic + filesystem checks permanently by using tune2fs. All I am proposing is a + way to skip a periodic filesystem check till the next startup of the + system. This way you get the fast startup when desperately needed (e.g. + when giving a presentation), and keep - at the same time - the + filesystem stable. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306621