regular fsck runs are too disturbing

[Conrad Knauer]

On 9/27/07, Waldemar Kornewald <wkornew at freenet.de> wrote:

> the current behavior which draws users away (friends
> who saw fsck on my laptop called Linux stupid and asked me why I don't
> just use Windows).

As a temporary cosmetic work-around, something like forcing the output
into a pseudo-window on the boot screen (so that it doesn't look like
the whole thing crashed to command line) might be nice, e.g.:


	 u  b  u  n  t  u
	[X][X][ ][ ][ ][ ]

	 ----------------
	|checking files  |
	|===> 21%        |
	 ----------------

CK