On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 04:33:25PM -0400, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Chris Green <[1]c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > I used to get a (small) message on the pre-login screen when fsck > disk > checks were done automatically at start up. These seem to have > disappeared now. > Is this a bug? It's really necessary for the system to say > something > as otherwise it simply looks as if the boot has hung for some reason > and with big disks it can take a long time for the checks to > complete. > > > As the system is booting, hitting the esc button shows a text-based > screen that allows the user to when the system is doing while it is > booting. During those activities, there is no indication of fsck on > disks?
Not sure. > fsck is configured by default to check disks for error every 30th mount > or so. Then it does nothing until it hits that interval. Perhaps, your > system already reached the 30th mark, in which case, it has to wait > another 30 mounts to run again. > This ability can be disabled or tweaked at the users end. Search the > man pages for a program called "tune2fs" or read this forum link. > [2]https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/239709/how-to-stop-filesyst > em-check-fsck-on-boot > Yes, I know all this, I don't want to disable the fsck, I just want to know when it's doing it (and maybe have the option to abort it), these options used to appear on the GUI before login. -- Chris Green -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users