Hi Joachim! On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:02:08 +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 06.11.2008, 19:57 +0100 schrieb Luca Capello: >> >> - /etc/default/rcS >> >> >> >> By default we enable fsck at boot, is this a good thing? [...] >> The major problem I found with this setting is that when the FR runs out >> of power, as soon as you plug in the cable (being it the USB or the wall >> charger one) Debian starts and then fsck fires up, which results in the >> FR running again out of power. The only solution I am aware of is to >> switch on the distribution installed on the internal flash memory. > > It runs out of power despite being on the cabel? Hmm, that’s bad.
AFAIK this is a known and expected behavior [1], because the FR requires more power than the one provided by the wall charger when the battery is completely empty. > But what else should we do? Having the filesystem slowly corrupt over > the time is no a good solution for a Debian system either, is it? I am for all in favor of fsck at boot, but not everytime. Enrico's proposal at [2] could be a step in this direction, I will post my comments there. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Forcing_fast_charge_mode [2] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-userland/2008-November/000374.html
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