Comment 5 for bug 219382

It may be deliberate, but it is a bug nonetheless.

I'd say that 95+% of the improper shutdowns I've ever had have been on battery-powered devices, so specifically skipping filesystem checks on those devices is a huge problem.

As mentioned above, the power savings when the filesystem is fine is negligible, so there is no benefit. Unless you consider corrupted data a benefit.

Go ahead and skip the periodic check if you want, but do not skip a check forced due to an improper shutdown.

I am a relative noob to Ubuntu, having used Debian for the last ~10 years and now experimenting with Ubuntu due to the improved high-level usability over Debian. But poor low-level usability like this is driving me right back to Debian.