FS#31810 - Defer boot-time fsck on laptop if it runs on battery.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Vitaly Mayatskikh (vitaly) - Thursday, 04 October 2012, 22:51 GMT
Last edited by Tom Gundersen (tomegun) - Friday, 05 October 2012, 14:38 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Tom Gundersen (tomegun)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

It will be quite good for battery life and overall user experience to defer disks check if machine in question is a laptop and it runs on battery. Some of Linux distros do that already (for example, Fedora), and that's quite convenient. It's not unusual for modern laptops to have ~1TB disk, and fsck may run for a long time.
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Closed by  Tom Gundersen (tomegun)
Friday, 05 October 2012, 14:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Thursday, 04 October 2012, 23:08 GMT
This is a config knob that you should set for yourself if you want this behavior.

man e2fsck.conf
Comment by Vitaly Mayatskikh (vitaly) - Thursday, 04 October 2012, 23:19 GMT
Indeed, it is as simple, as having this option set to true (and even man says it is true by default, though my laptop still checks disks being on battery), but I found it reasonable to have that option enabled and working by default.
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Thursday, 04 October 2012, 23:23 GMT
If the doc says it should work by default and it doesn't, then you should take it up with upstream.

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