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dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

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Avoiding bootup fsck when in battery mode

I'm not certain that this can/has actually happen/ed anyway but I imagine it's a bit depressing to turn on your laptop and watch it do an fsck of a 40gig partition on your battery!

I'm sure it's simple to check the ACPI state and skip the check

if [ -z $(cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT*/state | grep "discharging") ] ; then

would do you guys reckon?

kleptophobiac

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From: Sunnyvale, CA

Registered: 2004-04-25

Posts: 489

Re: Avoiding bootup fsck when in battery mode

I like it... see about putting that in the official init scripts!

CyberTron

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From: Gotland ,Sweden

Registered: 2005-03-17

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Re: Avoiding bootup fsck when in battery mode

i too like it, it is not very pleasant to do have your entire harddrive searched through on battery (especially when the batterytime is limited

very nice idea dibblethewrecker

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Avoiding bootup fsck when in battery mode

Good idea, dibble.

Ubuntu does this, it detects if you're on battery and doesnt fsck.

Chuck it on the mailing list or make a patch and put it on the bugtracker, im sure they'll merge it.

iphitus

dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

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Re: Avoiding bootup fsck when in battery mode

ok - how about people using apm?  i need an -o for them