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Bug#2065: single user isn't



Package: base
Version: 0.93.6-13

It is utterly unreasonable for the system to try and do fsck's when the
system is booted with 'linux single'.  The whole point of a single user boot
is that something is wrong that needs reasoned attention from a system
adminitrator.  A single-user boot should do absolutely *nothing* that isn't
required to drop the system admin into a shell.

This caused me considerable grief when one of the disks on my system was
starting to fail, and I was desperately trying to extract a few critical
files that had been updated since the last backup.  The cycle was to boot,
snag a few files before the disk warmed up and failed, then power down to let
things cool off, then repeat.  The insistence of the system on doing fsck's
at every boot made this a much less productive process per unit time than it
could/should have been.

Bdale


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