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bug #12245: /etc/mtab dependancy not noted in documentation.

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Tue 08 Mar 2005 01:45:22 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Documentation Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Action Request
Status:  Wont Fix Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name:  Petro
Originator Email:  -email is unavailable- Open/Closed:  Closed
Release:  None Release:  Through Current
Reproducibility:  None Planned Release:  None

Mon 30 May 2005 10:19:49 PM UTC, comment #2: 


Beautiful response, just what one expects from a dedicated professional.

Diff has a dependency on mtab?

Of course mount does, but IT IS DOCUMENTED.

I didn't ask for the dependency to be removed, but rather TO BE DOCUMENTED.

Anonymous
Mon 30 May 2005 12:15:47 PM UTC, comment #1: 

The dependency on /etc/mtab is very usual. Many shell programs, such as diff and mount, depend on /etc/mtab on many operating systems. This is a common sense, so not worth mentioning particularly.

If you are doing an unusual thing, you must know how the system works. That's it.

Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji>
Group administrator
Tue 08 Mar 2005 01:45:22 AM UTC, original submission:  

It seems that grub uses, or looks at /etc/mtab when it installs  or sets itself up for the first time.

This is not documented anywhere, so if one is doing something really ugly and bizarre (like backing a system up to a different disk, removing the boot disk, forgetting the proper partition layout (which was overly complicated) and completely forgetting about /etc/mtab (which documented said partition layout) then one could (hypothetically of course) spend several days trying to figure out why he can't get the machine to boot, even though grub is finding the kernel and the initrd, but things keep blowing up after pivotroot.

Dunno exactly where in the docs to make the change, but if you'd like me too, I can give it a whack and submit the changes.

I don't know if version 2 does the same sort of ugliness, but having had to do wierd emergency disk drive broke fix it now now now things in the past, the more of the process that is configurable at the command line, and the more that is documented in the man page (use of info considered harmful), the better life is.

Thanks.

Anonymous

 

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Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
2005-05-30 okuji StatusNone Wont Fix
    Open/ClosedOpen Closed
2005-03-08 None Carbon-Copy- Added petro --AT-- bounty --DOT-- org

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