scanning ext3 filesystem on shutdown and not bootup?

[David McGlone]

On Friday 16 November 2007 8:20:44 pm D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Friday 16 November 2007, David McGlone wrote:
> > > Here's an easier way, boot up the computer and just yank the plug out
> > > of the wall, it'll do a fsck every time ;-)
> >
> > Ok, Ok, I'll save you all the humiliation and answer this one. Hello
> > David, He said "SHUT_DOWN" not "BOOT_UP". So lock them kids in the closet
> > and pay attention dude.
>
> Fscking idiot. :)

He is, isn't he. Ha, Ha. I saw him stick his tail between his legs, drop his 
head and went to the corner. :-0
>
> I can't think of any particular reason why it shouldn't be possible to fsck
> at shutdown, though I can't think of any easy way to accomplish this
> either. You'd have to hack something into whatever Ubuntu is using for
> shutdown scripts now.  Or you could go into single user mode by hand and
> hijack that twilight state.  It all seems like way more trouble than it
> could possibly be worth to me though, unless someone at the distro level
> could be persuaded to turn the world around from the top down, and get it
> done the right way, instead of by rude hackery.  Rude hackery and fscking
> don't seem to be a good pair, and I'm pretty sure there isn't currently a
> polite way to accomplish this.
>
> --
> D. Michael McIntyre



-- 
David M.

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