<div dir="ltr">Word. Lionel In the Chinese language, "crisis" is a compound word composed of "danger" and "opportunity". <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Stephan <<a href="mailto:root@stewo.org">root@stewo.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> great idea! <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:47:12 +0200, mike corn <<a href="mailto:mikecorn@arcor.de">mikecorn@arcor.de</a>> wrote: > Why not move this process to shutdown time instead of boot time? The > user could walk away and let the computer finish checking the file > systems then shut down. If an error is detected, then the check would be > repeated at the next boot up. > > Bryce Harrington wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:52:25AM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote: >>> == Filesystem checking / AutoFsck == >>> >>> A suggestion was made to the technical board that Ubuntu could be > smarter >>> about how and when it performs filesystem integrity checks (fsck). >>> >>> Decision: This should be discussed more widely in the developer > community >>> Action: Scott to start a thread on ubuntu-devel/-discuss >> >> I find the autofsck to be most notable on my laptop, perhaps because I >> reboot it more frequently, and because it usually chooses to autofsck at >> some inopportune time.  I don't know if laptop harddrives need fsck more >> than desktop's, but I wouldn't mind seeing the frequency be reduced for >> laptops. >> >> Alternatively, maybe the autofsck could be made to take a few more >> factors into account, such as total run time since last fsck, total >> absolute time since last fsck, drive age, etc. >> >> Bryce >> > > -- > Ubuntu-news-team mailing list > <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-news-team@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-news-team@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news-team" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news-team</a> -- Ubuntu-news-team mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-news-team@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-news-team@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news-team" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news-team</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>