On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:05:40AM -0400, Gary Molenkamp wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get rid of the hacks in systemconfigurator, but I've hit
> this problem.
>
> When you are calling get_mountinfo to find the boot device, you are doing
> a pattern match search for the path as compared to entries in /etc/fstab:
>
> while(<FSTAB>) {
> s/#.*//; ## strip comments
> if (m,^\s*(/dev/\S+\d+)\s+$file\s,) {
>
> However, if the fstab file relies on labels (as is the default install
> for redhat/not sure about debian), it will look something like
> the following:
>
> LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
>
> The systemconfig will then fail to get the boot device.
>
> This info can be gleaned from mount in this case.
on a normal running system, yes. however, mount just reads /etc/mtab,
which is not accurate at the time sc runs.
we can assume proc is mounted though, and this information is in
/proc/mounts. i wonder if there's an issue with using it instead.
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