I'd just like to point out that it seems to take 40 minutes to scan a
500 GB volume!
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 11:05 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
On 27/09/2007 Oliver Grawert wrote:
What about my alternative suggestion? It would still run fsck, but at
the same time be less annoying or not disturbing at all.
not wsure if you ever ran fsck manually, but you have to unmount the
partition you check or at least mount it readonly ...
so no matter how far you will background it you wont be able to work
while it runs ...
If the point of running that (annoying, indeed) fsck is to check for
disk defect, why not running badblocks instead? It can do a read-only
check on a mounted filesystem. You could modify that so that it runs
only when other processes are not accessing the disk. In any case,
having a journaled filesystem by default and blocking users while they
might be in a hurry is not pleasant. At least leave the possibility of
interrupting the check. Suppose you are at a conference, and it starts
checking your disk, and you start your talk late for that reason. What
will other people think about ubuntu? Is this good publicity?
Vincenzo
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