2014-12-08 11:44 GMT+01:00 claude juif <claude.j...@gmail.com>: > 2014-12-08 10:28 GMT+01:00 Frédéric Marchal > <frederic.marc...@wowtechnology.com>: >> >> Le Monday 08 December 2014 09:44:07, Curt a écrit : >> > On 2014-12-08, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: >> > > Actually, it's *always* a surprise. These fsck happen at long enough >> > > intervals, that I can never know if it was "4 months ago" or "7 months >> > > ago", and neither can I remember which laptop/desktop has the delay >> > > set >> > > to 172 days vs 194 days vs 98 days vs ... >> > >> > Can't you write a small script to obviate the limitations of your human >> > memory, like this little hacker here did? >> >> I'm joining in as Gentoo doesn't allow me to cancel fsck and it is a real >> PITA. I much prefer the flexibility offered by Debian. If I'm in a hurry, >> I just >> cancel fsck and restart the computer later to let it run fsck completely. >> >> On my Gentoo box, the ext partition is set to scan the disk every 34 boots >> or >> after 180 days. There is no way I can keep track of the number of boots as >> three other people use that computer and turn it on when I'm not around. A >> script wouldn't help either. What would it have to report to be of any use >> in >> letting me know that the *next* boot will take one hour? Even I can't tell >> when someone will need the computer. > > > Maybe you just have to make partitions. Il your rootfs is 1To it's gonna > take 2 hours to run fsck, but if you have smaller partition like > - / => 10G > - /usr => 10G > ... > /data => 1To, it's gonna take 5 mins. > > Just update your fsck to check only / and /usr so you know your system is > clean. And you can run run fsck yourself for /data.
/, /var and /tmp already are very small partitions. The 1TB disk is the home partition where all the important data are. I can't split it up and I don't feel comfortable with the idea of running fsck only when and if I remember to do it. The computer is there to serve me, not the other way around! > So you are in control ! That's not being in control. That's doing chores the system is making more difficult to deal with. I would rather spend the time doing something with the computer than for the computer. > You can't ask developer to handle every single case of your life. A feature was lost and I say it was useful to me and, apparently, a bunch of people. The proposals so far imply more bookkeeping and/or maintenance tasks on my part. Maintenance tasks are necessary. But, in the case discussed here, there used to be a simpler solution. I don't want the developers to assume the current non-interruptible fsck solution is satisfactory to everyone. Nor is the no-fsck-at-all solution acceptable to everybody. Now, I would accept a solution simpler than "let fsck run automatically from time to time or press ctrl+c to run it later" but none comes to my mind. Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caj7r-8tefj9hzmw6dwm5yyh-rqfd464pvdox-elsu82-8uh...@mail.gmail.com
