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Subject: Re: kern/157933: Install script fails when /root is mounted as its
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Synopsis: Install script fails when /root is mounted as its own partition

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: delphij
State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 23 22:47:25 UTC 2011
State-Changed-Why: 
These install.sh scripts are merely provided for user convenience
and they are not part of the installer.  What they do is to use
tar to extract from concatenate of several splitted pieces of
installation files and tar would give error messages if a hard
link can not be created (because a split /root means it would be
a cross-device link which is not permitted) but it would proceed
with the files and not stop there.

Therefore, this really don't affect installation except the two
files that are traditionally hard link from / to /root so what
is really being lack of are the two potentionally cross-device
links and nothing more.

Note that /root in a split partition is not recommended anyways,
since you may run into problem in single user mode.  If you really
need that, what we suggest would be to create the partition after
the installation and copy files over.


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->delphij
Responsible-Changed-By: delphij
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Aug 23 22:47:25 UTC 2011
Responsible-Changed-Why: 
Grab.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=157933