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Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?



On 08/12/2014 22:00, Brian wrote:
On Mon 08 Dec 2014 at 17:14:58 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:

On Monday 08 December 2014 16:25:51 Brian wrote:
On Mon 08 Dec 2014 at 09:40:03 -0500, The Wanderer wrote:

Several people in this thread (including, I think, you?) are responding
to those complaints by saying "It's your own fault, for not doing X",
rather than by saying "Yes, it's systemd's fault, for not doing /
letting you do Y".

Sorry again; I see nothing which translates as "It's your own fault...".

"Remedial action is not needed because the right choice was made from the
grub menu. If it wasn't, you get to live with the consequences and don't
do it again."  (You)

Would you please read

   [🔎] 20141205205925.GB20928@copernicus.demon.co.uk">https://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 20141205205925.GB20928@copernicus.demon.co.uk

again?

    One could even set up two GRUB entries for the choices. An extra
    keystroke or two and one get exactly what one wants. Isn't choice and
    control a wonderful thing?

This is a proposed solution to having an fsck run only when chosen.

Renaud OLGIATI responded

    What about the choice to stop fsck it if it has started at an inconvenient moment ?

Then I responded as you quote above. It is obvious I am referring back
to the solution, where two choices are available. Making a mistake and
not choosing the right option is a human thing to do (cf: the rm
command) but I went on to point out a fact of life - if booting is
broken, you get to keep the pieces.

And that is just the first.  You have been very condemnatory from the
beginning until recently.

There are others? It would be only fair to give references so I have the
opportunity to correct any further misimpressions.

But now it seems that one has to issue a Health Warning - "Yes, it's
systemd's fault, for not doing / letting you do Y" - before tackling a
problem associated with it. Dream on. There is enough information in
this thread for a user to do something about the lack of a previously
existing feature other than complain.


Hello all,

Brian you seem to miss a point here, your roundabout solution to systemd introduced regression implies that when you boot your computer you get to know in advance if you can afford a fsck to run on those big data drives. I live in a country with very unreliable power, and there are quite a few around the planet. We still do computing, and have UPS, but even UPS and solar powered batteries cannot get the computer to run for ever. If I start booting and fsck runs, and I get a power cut, what am I to do ? I can wait with my fingers crossed that fsck will complete before I run out of power, at which point the system is going to crash badly, or interrupt it and shut down more or less cleanly. I gave up on systemd for my main computers because my systems where taking so long to power down ("waiting for service "blah" to shutdown") that I was at risk of running out of batteries, now I get the same during boot.

Have a good day (or night).


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