#Make boot time lesser

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nova lance
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#quick-questions message
What do you mean by this?

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For anyone new that may come here, I'm trying to get my arch linux boot time down from ~10 seconds to something quicker hopefully

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Also just tried to boot up my laptop and started a stopwatch alongside
Took 22.5 seconds. systemd blame shows ~7 seconds. :/

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@indigo berry

indigo berry
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7s is just userspace

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run sudo fsck /dev/sda1

nova lance
nova lance
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1s

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fsck from util-linux 2.41.2
e2fsck 1.47.3 (8-Jul-2025)
/dev/sda1: clean, 13/61054976 files, 4115204/244190208 blocks```
indigo berry
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The term user space (or userland) refers to all code that runs outside the operating system's kernel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_space_and_kernel_space

systemd is the first thing that runs after the kernel

User space and kernel space

A modern computer operating system usually uses virtual memory to provide separate address spaces or regions of a single address space, called user space and kernel space. This separation primarily provides memory protection and hardware protection from malicious or errant software behaviour.

Kernel space is strictly reserved for running a priv...