Comment 23 for bug 22460

[cross-posted from bug #3581, which is similar]

In my opinion, the best solution is to make fsck run on *shutdown* rather than on boot-up. The rationale behind this is that people usually turn on their computers to do something with it. At those times, people want their computers to boot up as fast as possible.

Conversely, people usually do not shut down their computer to do something to it. The exceptions to this are when one is going to replace some hardware, or move a laptop around. Other than that, shutdown speed is not as important.

Thus I believe fsck should run on shutdown by default, and there should be an option to change its behavior if the user would prefer that.