Happy New Year! Was: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

[Ric Moore]

On 01/03/2015 09:16 AM, Unknown Crewman wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:22:57 -0500, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On 12/30/2014 05:58 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>> On Lu, 29 dec 14, 01:22:27, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Can we not let this pitiful excuse for a thread JUST DIE?? :/ Ric
>>>
>>> Posting to it certainly won't help ;)
>>
>> There is that! Which is why I posted to offtopic where threads never
>> die, they just "fade away", like an old soldier.
>>
>> Happy New Years to you sorry lot! <cackles> :) Ric
>
> You might be right, I didn't follow this thread, OTOH we reached a
> state where conformity of the communities is over individuality and
> individuality usually is blamed with insults and Linux history is
> rewritten, corrected to the new style, just one of the oddest
> examples, there are tons of others too:
>
> "Linux has never been about ‘choice’ or ‘freedom’ and those myths should
> just die out.
>
> Read:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-January/msg00861.html"
> - http://allanmcrae.com/2014/12/pacman-4-2-released/#comment-1256
>
> Actually I use Linux (kernel and user space software) because it at
> least _was_ about manifoldness and libre (FLOSS).
>                                             ^"L" is for libre
>
> Regards and a Happy New Year!
> Unknown Crewman, aka Ralf Mardorf
>
> PS: There was a time when systemd checked some partitions with each
> startup ;), again and again and again and ... :D.

So did UNIX, with 250 pound drives. I had 4 of those in my Unisys 
5000/90 toy-to-play-with mini-mainframe. They fsck'd endlessly. Then the 
tape drives had to sync. I loved watching them whirr about. It was one 
heckuva toy! :) Ric



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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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