Re: No fsck in battery mode

[Matt Foster <mattfoster@clara.co.uk>]

Quoting Derek Broughton (dbroughton@lincsat.com):
> From: "Frédéric Bothamy" <fbothamy@mail.dotcom.fr>
> 
> > * Matt Foster <mattfoster@clara.co.uk> [2003-09-01 19:29] :
> > > Quoting Derek Broughton (dbroughton@lincsat.com):
> > > >
> > > > Which will work, but there's an on_ac_power program that is supposed
> to be
> > > > smart enough to figure it out whether you're using apm or acpi.  I'd
> tell
> > > > you which package it's in, but I can't get to the net from Linux at
> the
> > > > moment...
> > >
> > > So there is, its in powermgmt-base. much neater!
> >
> > Except that since it is under /usr, it might not be available at fsck
> > time (that is, before /usr is mounted in /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh).
> 
> Doh!  Of course you're right.  I wonder if it could be copied to /boot and
> still work?  Matt's solution is good - but it must have the same problem:
> grep will be available at the same time as on_ac_power!
> 
well, no, since grep lives in /bin. On startup, / get mounted read-only.
Thats the only way fsck can be run. That means that you can use grep,
and anything else livig in /bin. I personally have almost everything in
one partition, so I can use on_acpi_power as well, but for the sake of
speed, I prefer the grep method. 

matt

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