From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9jJ3-0006Ng-Re for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:31:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E21F1C030; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:29:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pv0-f181.google.com (mail-pv0-f181.google.com [74.125.83.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E340B1C030 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvg13 with SMTP id 13so3729809pvg.40 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:29:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XzcuC//c+5/ed1a3XokAcd3MH7cPqmNx5juUaKEEO2s=; b=iF2Ag0CRSyDvw77ZiTvurqSm4vezu3Zlv1gCSfiIoOylTEaeKFUpwRBw3oPP2OCIx4 DGG1pJwksuugtEcLIdu/cOReJPBlTygWV/bEi8f26sdmbcZQt4k3sP37rftvUCFJosW1 SIohgX6BhsDRX/joufDNolj4oW/TL/xhQpkh0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OunZ0t/5FHr7p1Hm/LxIiob+QmxZ22j0MladmlXAbT+VqAJvrk6Ba5OPdKvJbuNYn0 GYKw1eECl3v7I8BIFMsTj5GIlNm9A2wDgIA3yRXSnvCNvXisEONXz+uVrFLoRCPi/Wsc PjfsRur1jYbfmFeSG5rjk/qzHzdcbHiWnVigc= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.231.11 with SMTP id d11mr6296283wfh.35.1302636575129; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.64.201 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:29:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <580732.37817.qm@web39302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <6271.9145.qm@web39321.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20110412175814.GC3452@crowfix.com> <580732.37817.qm@web39302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:29:35 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted? From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2ca19e02ebeaa73a4f6c431c8045dba9 >> >> Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes t= he >>file >> >> system relatively clean again so that things function well - =A0and t= hings >>don't >> >> get lost. >> >> If you skip it, you risk data =A0corruption on disk. >> > >> > That misses the point. =A0I have rebooted =A0sometimes just for a quic= k >> > change, possibly to try a different kernel, =A0and intending to reboot >> > several times. =A0Then whoops! it starts a long =A0fsck scan, not to r= epair >> > damage, but just because some counter went to =A0zero. =A0What a waste= . >> > >> > It's like insisting on an oil change =A0exactly every 3000 miles. =A0N= o, >> > sorry, I will wait until it is convenient =A0for *me*, not the odomete= r. >> > >> > So his question is, once the fsck =A0has started, can he ^C to bomb it >> > off, or do anything else to skip what =A0has started? >> >> Exactly. =A0I couldn't get it to stop with ^C or i or =A0I. >> > > No. You can't. Nor do you want to at that point. > Once it has started it really should run until completion otherwise you r= eally > risk data corruption. > If you want to stop it, you have to prevent it from starting in the first= place. Yeah, that can really be a drag. Last night my Gentoo HTPC checked the 2TB drive for 2 hours when I rebooted after a movie we were watching froze. - Grant