Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

[Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> users equally well.  If it does, the relevance of having a ^C at boot
>> time for stopping an fsck might be open to examination.
>
> The issue goes beyond fsck.  It's important to be able to interrupt
> various long-running operations (typically waiting for an event)
> during boot.
>
Well, get ready for some disappointment then, because that plain isn't 
possible.

Most operations will be cancellable, but there will always exist
operations that can't be cancelled, by design or by accident.

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