File System check at boot, is delayed if the partition is large.

[smurf]

Binary package hint: util-linux

File system check at boot time is normally performed on my Karmic AMD64, but if the partition to check is very large, the check is done in background. It means that the kernel can caontinue the boot operations, while the check on the partition is performed.
That is great because otherwise I had to wait for a long time before the boot is completed.
The partition appears unmounted when the desktop in functional and some minutes after, when the check ends, the partition is autiomatically mounted.
But, if the partition being checked contains files needed at the desktop launch (i.e.: databases, or simply photos or musics used in desktop start) the desktop manager goes in mess.

Is it possible to force the kernel to wait the end of the file system check for a specified partition?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 14d3c04c3faff90c66867581a0006b2d
CheckboxSystem: da9af3b901b5569a389df6337f3d812f
Date: Fri Nov 6 07:42:15 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: util-linux 2.16-1ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_PE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: util-linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2847): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2847): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2970): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2952): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Add "bootwait" to the mount point options in /etc/fstab

[smurf (luca-dgh)]

Thank you a lot for the tip.