Interrupting fsck during startup

[Ben Scott]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Michael ODonnell
<michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
> Ahh, but I love the way Ctl-Alt-Del gives That Fresh Feeling(tm)!
> With few exceptions our customers are Windows users and thus many are in
> the habit of rebooting as a first response to *any* situation.

  Well, if the problem actually is just people trigger-happy
CTRL+ALT+DEL, then you can disable that just by removing the
corresponding command line from /etc/inittab.  Or have it do something
else.  For my own systems, I usually change it to have the system
shutdown instead of rebooting; I find that's more useful for my needs.
 You could have it play a clip from 2001, "I'm sorry, I can't do that,
Dave..".

  Of course, I suspect disabling the three-finger-salute will just
move the problem to lusers hitting the power switch, and thus make
things worse.

-- Ben