Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly
David wrote:
> Every X days or Y reboots, Linux (on my home PC, which I boot & shut
> down 2x each day) wants to scan partitions for errors at startup.
> While this is a bit annoying (can't use the PC for 10-20 minutes), I
> usually let it finish and read a book while waiting.
shutting down 2x times each day seems to be a very inefficient way of
using/managing a desktop PC. Use "software suspend" and hibernate the
machine whenever you want to power down the machine.
Bringing up a machine from an hibernated state is faster than bringing up a
machine from a "shutdown -h now" state. Not only that, it also preserves
the state of the system.
I frequently move across different places (say work, home, lab, etc.,) and
everytime I have to change a location, I just hibernate the machine. Then I
go to the new location, then restart the machine and continue working from
where I left off. This is a really great feature. Once you get used to it,
you will think of how you managed without it for such a long time.
>
> But at other times I want to use the PC quickly for something, and
> waiting for fsck to finish isn't an option.
Precisely. When you want to show a graph/result/chart to your boss, you
can't say "please wait for 10 minutes. My Linux machine is fscking
the /dev/hda1 partition!" :-) Just use the hibernate feature.
Now a days, the only time I do a complete reboot of my laptop is when I had
upgraded the kernel (due to a security upgrade).
hth
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
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