According to Sean 'Shaleh' Perry, > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 23:34, Tony Godshall wrote: > > > > > (another option is to have your script touch /fastboot when on battery, > > > as that will completely bypass the running of fsck - just make sure it > > > runs before checkroot.sh!... you'd need a static copy of on_ac_power > > > (well, awk/grep..), and /etc/rcS.d/S09powercheck.sh or so) > > > > Thanks for bringing this up. I wasn't aware of /fastboot. > > Looks like a good solution. Well, except that / has to be > > mounted first. > > > > ummm, / is gonna be mounted, otherwise how is the OS reading /etc or > attempting to run fsck?
Well, I think it comes up read-only, then is fsck'd, then is remounted rw. Touching /fastboot would fail if the drive is mounted ro. I guess you could touch fastboot before you go on the road, but I'd rather have a more automated method.