Re: [opensuse] ext3 check forced = frustration On Sat February 16 2008 13:38:11 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > It is bad enough that we don't get any decent feedback in the
> > splash screen ( https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=344271
> > ), which I can imagine is unsettling to many new users, who will
> > have no clue about what is happening.
>[...]
> What could be reported as a bug is the no feedback situation with the
> splash screen. I always disable the splash screen and boot in verbose
> mode.

It's reported already, as I pointed out in the link above. 
Go there and vote for it, as I did.

> Perhaps a method could be devised to warn in advance that a disk
> check is getting near, and then do it at your convenience. Or when
> the time comes to have the possibility of saying "tomorrow, please".

I like that. 
Instead of just telling the user "you are out of luck today - this time 
the boot process will take a long while", you could ask "it is time to 
check your file system; this process may take a while; do you want to 
do it now?"
We should add this to the enhancement suggestion in 
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=344271 .

-- 
Carlos FL
 "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority.  By 
  definition, there are already enough people to do that." - G. H. Hardy


