Re: [sysvinit-devel] [DIFF]: Proposal for remove the options -f, -F of shutdown

[Matias A. Fonzo]

On 2014-03-27 19:39, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Matias A. Fonzo]
> > Hi there,
>
> Hi.
> > IMHO, this seems unsafe and unnecessary.
>
> Well, it allow a sysadmin to trigger a fsck at boot without having to
> change some boot loader setup, and in a way that make sure it only
> last for one boot.

I see. Thanks for clarifying. :-)

Now my doubt is, if fastboot, forcefsck and fsck(8) are handled in the 
boot scripts, the code in shutdown.c is really needed?. Let's say:

# touch /fastboot
# shutdown