From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Oct 23 5:19:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A24D37B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 05:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA39394; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:19:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Marius Bendiksen Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ideas concerning fsck References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 23 Oct 2000 14:19:31 +0200 In-Reply-To: Marius Bendiksen's message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2000 03:00:24 +0200 (CEST)" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marius Bendiksen writes: > You might want to consult Adrian on this, in connection with his work with > fsck wrappers. I've spoken to him on IRC. > > Doing anything at all before you know you can trust your root > > partition (where fsck itself is stored) is not a very good idea. > And using /etc/fstab, stored on the same partition, is a better idea? No. However, we can't get around the need for fstab, but we can get around the need for some kind of fscktab which contains static information which practically noone will ever need to change. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message