initscripts: 14 minute wait to fsck during boot is too long

[Jayson Vaughn]

Is it just one partion i.e. 60gig "/" partition?  If so 14 minutes for 60
gig sounds about right.

On 11/7/06, Francis Irving <francis at flourish.org> wrote:
>
> Package: initscripts
> Version: 2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu16
> Severity: important
>
> Every 30th time that I reboot, fsck spends 14 minutes checking the
> disk (on a 60G drive). The boot speed in Edgy is otherwise so
> fantastic now, that such a long delay becomes noticeable.
>
> Does an ext3 filesystem really need this check at all? I thought
> it was journaling, and there should be no need for such a slow check.
>
> If the check really is required, it needs to be made comprehensible to
> ordinary users. In particular, the textual description should say what
> it is doing in plain English, and ideally it should have a graphical
> look to fit the rest of the boot sequence. There should be a button
> to cancel the check and boot immediately.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> APT prefers edgy-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'edgy-updates'), (500, 'edgy-security'), (500, 'edgy')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-10-386
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>
> Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
> ii  debianutils        2.16.2                Miscellaneous utilities
> specific t
> ii  e2fsprogs          1.39-1                ext2 file system utilities
> and lib
> ii  libc6              2.4-1ubuntu12         GNU C Library: Shared
> libraries
> ii  lsb-base           3.1-10ubuntu4         Linux Standard Base 3.1 init
> scrip
> ii  mount              2.12r-11ubuntu2       Tools for mounting and
> manipulatin
> ii  sysvutils          2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu16 System-V-like utilities
>
> initscripts recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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