Comment 32 for bug 431040

On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 21:30 +0000, Luke wrote:

> Issues are as follows:
>
> 1: if someone has not set a root password but is asked for a root
> password for the shell, they cannot fix the filesystem and can only try
> to skip it with ^d. Unless the shell does not ask for a root password
> when none or a random one is set, this is real trouble, as mountall
> won't let them try to boot.
>
If they do not have a root password set, they are given the shell
straight away (this is the default configuration so well tested :p)

> 2: If someone has a big /home partition with errors they should still be
> able to boot and put off fsck repairs because they may not have 15
> minutes to wait on a 160GB disk being checked if they are say, checking
> email before going out the door. An end user with a 1TB drive will have
> real trouble is they run into, say, the clock/utc fsck bug.
>
fsck skipping is coming back, don't worry (that code is basically
unchanged since jaunty - just in a separate branch while we deal with
the big bugs)

Scott
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