Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:21:01 +0900 From: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Sysinstall is still horribly broken. Message-ID: <20011120082101T.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011119091051.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20011118031815.A17408@freebsd06.udt> <XFMail.011119091051.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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jhb> Not sure what this is all about. /etc/fstab should exist in
jhb> theory. Actually, it might not exist yet.
/etc/fstab should *not* exist since /etc is in mfsroot.flp. If there
is /etc/fstab which is match your disk configulation, that's magic :-)
jhb> During an install w/o using existing partitions we don't have a /
jhb> filesystem to put /etc/fstab in. Probably we should use an
jhb> explicit fsck_ffs or fsck -t ffs when fscking existing
jhb> filesystems from sysinstall.
We don't run fsck iff we don't use existing partitions. That's why
"/etc/fstab:0: No such file or directory" message are not shown.
There is a code for fscking existing partitions but it doesn't work
until my last commit to src/sys/release/{alpha,i386,pc98}/boot_crunch.conf.
We are in 5-current era, and we can't asssume that all device file
listed in existing /etc/fstab in /dev on the disk (imagine you add a
new disk after installing 5-current). Sysinstall should be changed,
since it assume that /dev on existing (root) partition has all device
files which are listed in /etc/fstab or whatever. I'll try to fix in
this evening.
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Makoto `MAR' Matsushita
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