On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 10:37:09PM +0800, lukshun...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, May 21, 2017 01:06 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> > On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 09:28:08PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> > > On 05/19/2017 01:46 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> > > > I just want the warning message in the GUI to appear when it *does*
> > > > run so that I won't think something has gone wrong and hung the
> > > > system boot process.
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> [snapped]
>
> The fsck'ing has been moved into initrd. There's some information in this
> discussion.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1619753
>
> If the filesystem is clean, it shouldn't take much time. If it did take a
> long time, fsck is thinking there's sth wrong with the root filesystem and
> tries to repair it.
>
This isn't what happens, 'clean' is just a flag as I understand it
which tells fsck that there's nothing to do. Every time the system is
booted the flag is checked and, if it says 'clean' then fsck is almost
instantanous. All that 'clean' really means is that the system was
shut down properly.
However every 24 boots (or whatever has been set in the configuration)
a full in depth check of the filesystem is forced regardless of the
status of the 'clean' flag. This takes a long time on big disks.
You can get manually get a full check done by using the '-f' flag, I've just
tried this on a 1Tb disk on my system:-
root@esprimo# time fsck -f /dev/sdd1
fsck from util-linux 2.27.1
e2fsck 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sdd1: 776386/61054976 files (16.5% non-contiguous),
102311510/244190208 blocks
real 12m11.863s
user 1m33.116s
sys 0m14.392s
root@esprimo#
As you can see even on a *clean* 1Tb disk an *actual* fsck check takes
twelve minutes.
> If you want the behaviour to change, for example, echoing a message, maybe
> you want to file a bug report against the initramfs-tools package.
>
I just want the original behaviour back!
--
Chris Green
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