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Date:      Sun, 4 Jan 2004 13:41:38 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>
Cc:        fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fsck(8), /etc/fstab and vinum
Message-ID:  <20040104031138.GE7617@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040103160313.GA54680@schweikhardt.net>

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On Saturday,  3 January 2004 at 17:03:13 +0100, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> hello, world\n
>
> it appears fsck can't determine the file system type for ufs on vinum
> partitions if there is no entry in /etc/fstab,

Yes, there are difficulties, depending on the name of the volume.

> even when I use fsck -T ufs:ro /dev/vinum/foo.

Hmm.  I haven't tried this.  It works fine with -t ufs, at least on
-CURRENT.  Do you have trouble with that?

> In other words, the only way to fsck a vinum partition is to add a
> fake entry to /etc/fstab.

No, -t works.

> Is this intended?

No.

> Why can't I specify the fs type with -T?

I don't know, but I'd rather fix things so that we don't need this
kludge at all.

Greg
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