Comment 2 for bug 369787

Hello,

I tried to define a solution that would prevent laptop users from being blocked due to a read-only filesystem, but still allow the fsck sequence to be performed at shutdown time, so that users can quickly boot theier computer...

My suggestion is :

At boot time :
-> Display a timer and ask the user whether he wants to perform a filesystem check (wording TBD...). Default option : no fsck

At shutdown time :
-> test whether a fsck is needed
  If YES -> test whether the computer runs on batteries,
                 if YES ->skip fsck
                 if NO, -> perform fsck
  if NO -> shutdown