[Bug 84617] Re: FAT drive scanned at boot, triples startup time

[Phillip Susi]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 48806 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48806

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 59293
   Dosfsck Run On Every Boot on FAT
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 48806
   vfat filesystems checked by fsck

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Title:
  FAT drive scanned at boot, triples startup time

Status in “dosfstools” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  First, I should mention that this is somewhere between a bug and a
  design decision, but it seems a lot more like a bug, so I apologize if
  I filed this in the wrong place.

  The installer for Ubuntu 6.10 correctly detected all my internal
  drives and added commented-out entries to fstab for the non-root
  partitions.  However, it set the "check on boot" field to 1 for my 33
  GB FAT32 partition, and so when it booted it ran fsck on that
  partition, which added about 3 minutes to the boot time (I changed
  fstab so it wouldn't scan, and it booted in 1 minute), dropped to text
  mode during the scan, and filled the screen with lists of numbers - at
  first I thought it had crashed.  Since FAT32 partitions usually take a
  very long time to scan compared to normal Linux filesystems like ext3
  or reiserfs, I assume that the installer wasn't supposed to mark those
  to be checked every time at boot?

  Again, I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to report this.

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