Ubuntu
mountall package

  1. Bug #439604
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 439604

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 439604] Re: boot process isn't paused while fsck runs on partition: boot process is completed with fsck running in the background preventing partition from mounting

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 10:45:07PM -0000, SteveLoughran wrote:
> I appreciate what's being attempted here, gives a good experience for
> those slow, secondary mounts, but I think there are certain partitions
> that you should pause X for, / and /home being the two I have in mind.
> These should be given the bootwait attribute on upgrade.

We *do* block on /home for X.

> Now, I know it was mentioned in the release notes, so you are free to
> dismiss as "told you so", but given that neither machine was coming up
> with X, I wasn't in a position to go through those release notes to see
> what was in there that I should have remembered.

If X isn't coming up, that sounds like the opposite problem: X is still
waiting for /home and /home isn't available. Is that correct?

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