Idea #7914: Allow fsck to be cancelled

This idea was marked as already implemented the 1 May 08. Available starting Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.

Already done!

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Written by johno the 1 May 08 at 06:53. Category: System.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: Already implemented

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Once a fsck has been started, there seems no safe way to abort what can be a long procedure. This is a problem on boot where it can mean waiting 15 minutes for a boot with no way of bypassing a filesystem check which is only precautionary.

Idea 11, "Avoid Fsck Forced Irritation", has been marked as "done", on account of being able to prevent the fsck starting on boot under hardy, but its easy to miss that and still be stuck - so it only partially mitigates the problem, and isn't a solution.

Regardless of whether the fsck is at boot time, shutdown, or somehow a background process, there should be a way of aborting it cleanly after it's started - in case of imminent flat battery or other similar requirement.

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peterjs wrote on the 1 May 08 at 07:08

As with the idea you reference this is done in Hardy. When fsck runs a message comes up letting you know that you can press escape to skip the check.

Rinzwind wrote on the 1 May 08 at 08:19

Already done :)

1. Regarding the 1st sentence: before Hardy fsck was part of the boot and thus could not be canceled. I think Hardy works with events (if not please let someone correct me) and events can be stopped so Hardy let's you skip it.

Furthermore and 1 of the reasons I love Hardy with this new boot: in case you use a notebook and are running on BATTERY power FSCK is automagically skipped. Who thought of that should deserve a medal of honor :-)

2. Regarding the 2nd sentence: if clearly says underneath the fschk progress: press ESC to cancel. It's good enough for me and I have lousy eye-sight ;-)
3. Regarding the 3rd sentence: already possible; need Hardy Heron for it though.

johno wrote on the 2 May 08 at 00:42

Well, after an upgrade from dapper to hardy server installation, it definately doesn't appear for me, and and esc does not cancel it. Presumably everyone else is happy though, so lets not worry.

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