fsck on boot is major usability issue

Aaron C. de Bruyn ubuntu-devel-discuss at darkpixel.com
Fri Dec 21 22:05:56 UTC 2007


> My personal preference would be to move it to shut-down, but an
> interruptable check on boot is better than nothing. Just my two cents.

Of course then there's the laptop angle.
My old POS laptop has about 3 minutes of battery life left.  One day I either need a new laptop or to pony up a thousand for a shiny new model.
Anyways--I usually hit shutdown, unplug everything and throw it in my bag.

It would definitely run out of juice before the check was done on my 120 GB drive.

-A




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