Re: Startup scripts of Debian Lenny don't perform file system check while on battery power
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 22:18 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:30:45 +1300 > Richard Hector wrote: > > ... > > > I'd quite like to have an option to opt-out of a fsck anyway; it's > > really annoying when I'm just turning it on for a few minutes to check > > my mail before I rush out the door. > > > > Richard > > There was a thread about this several months ago; I don't remember much > about it, but the initial posts seem to contain a fair amount of useful > information: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/06/msg00833.html Thanks - looks like no 'proper' solutions, but possibly some useful hacks there. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Startup scripts of Debian Lenny don't perform file system check while on battery power
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:30:45 +1300 Richard Hector wrote: ... > I'd quite like to have an option to opt-out of a fsck anyway; it's > really annoying when I'm just turning it on for a few minutes to check > my mail before I rush out the door. > > Richard There was a thread about this several months ago; I don't remember much about it, but the initial posts seem to contain a fair amount of useful information: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/06/msg00833.html Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Startup scripts of Debian Lenny don't perform file system check while on battery power
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 20:58 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:20:53AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 01/13/09 04:40, elektra wrote: > > [snip] > > > >The startup scripts issue a warning of the kind "Warning! Skipping file > > >system check because the system is running on battery power" - I don't > > >know the exact wording - so the sysadmin has to perform the check manually > > >after boot-up to avoid data loss... > > > > > > > It's been like that for ages, since a full fsck takes a long time, > > which would drain the batteries. > > Ouch. Shouldn't it give a prompt asking what it should do? i.e. ask to > skip the fsck and force the mount; or run the fsck anyway (and suggest > plugging in the computer for the duration). I'd quite like to have an option to opt-out of a fsck anyway; it's really annoying when I'm just turning it on for a few minutes to check my mail before I rush out the door. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Startup scripts of Debian Lenny don't perform file system check while on battery power
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:20:53AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/13/09 04:40, elektra wrote: > [snip] > >The startup scripts issue a warning of the kind "Warning! Skipping file > >system check because the system is running on battery power" - I don't > >know the exact wording - so the sysadmin has to perform the check manually > >after boot-up to avoid data loss... > > > > It's been like that for ages, since a full fsck takes a long time, > which would drain the batteries. Ouch. Shouldn't it give a prompt asking what it should do? i.e. ask to skip the fsck and force the mount; or run the fsck anyway (and suggest plugging in the computer for the duration). Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Startup scripts of Debian Lenny don't perform file system check while on battery power
On 01/13/09 04:40, elektra wrote: [snip] I think the reason is that the startup scripts of the Lenny version I was running (installed with the netinstall cd in June or July on a Asus EEE PC 901 and frequently updated until it broke on Dezember 23rd 2008) omits the file system check if it detects a mobile system running on battery. The startup scripts issue a warning of the kind "Warning! Skipping file system check because the system is running on battery power" - I don't know the exact wording - so the sysadmin has to perform the check manually after boot-up to avoid data loss... It's been like that for ages, since a full fsck takes a long time, which would drain the batteries. over again without a file system check! Checking a interrupted ext3 mount is a matter of seconds so where is the point in skipping the check? That's just a load of garbage. e2fsck can take a *long* time. [snip] I like Debian and I'm surely going to use it again somewhere some day. And I'm sorry that I didn't write this email earlier - but I was busy and I was pissed. I'm running Slackware 12.2 now on the 901. It is not comfortable but it doesn't break because of an update and I can trust the people writing the startup scripts. Blah blah blah. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I am not surprised, for we live long and are celebrated poopers." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Startup scripts of Debian Lenny don't perform file system check while on battery power
elektra wrote: > Hi - > > sorry I can't use reportbug because I am not using Debian anymore. Using the > bug-report search engine I couldn't find a report related to my experience. I > don't know the name of the Debian package which contains the feature that I > assume has messed up the data in my ext3 file system. > > Here is the story: After an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade my system > crashed three times while on battery power (supend to RAM which perfectly > worked before wasn't properly waking up anymore) Subsequently my ext3 file > system was corrupted in such a way that fsck.ext3 couldn't repair it > anymore - system gone, some work lost that I couldn't recover from the disc. [snip] I think posting this to debian-user in quite pointless. Please forward all above to the people that really can judge: Debian sysvinit maintainers . -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
