[systemd-bugs] [Bug 88330] Please add "-f" to shutdown to skip fsck on demand

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88330

--- Comment #1 from Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> ---
if there's need to use this option, then this is probably because one has the
suspicion that the there's something wrong with the fs. In such a case it is
the worst idea of all to make a change to the file system by touching a file in
/. Asking for a file system fix by writing to it is really really wrong.
Moreover, doing this is not possible in setups where / is mounted read-only. 

Hence, this sysv feature is actively dangerous and cannot cover all usecase, as
such I am very strongly opposed to adding support for this to systemd natively.
We shouldn't support functionality that is really obviously broken at a
dangerous level, even if it traditionally was supported on sysv. Sorry!

That said, it's not particularly hard to manually touch /forcefsck and then
reboot. A "-f" switch is only marginally easier anyway. Hence not supporting
this in systemd itself is not too much of a loss if people really really want
to use it. 

I really want to avoid "blessing" something by supporting it in systemd
natively, that it so obviously dangerous.

Sorry!

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