On Wednesday 11 December 2002 18:21, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Monday 09 December 2002 22:36, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > > John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > The following patch to mkinitrd will prevent monumental screwups when
> > > > your fstab accidentally contains multiple entries for / (k3b screwed
> > > > mine over).
> > >
> > > [gc@obiwan ~] which head
> > > /usr/bin/head
> > >
> > > not good
> >
> > I'm confused. Whats not good about /usr/bin/head?
>
> mkinitrd must work even if /usr in not mounted
>
> > After all mkinitrd uses awk, and thats in /usr/bin
>
> why do you say that?
OK, the /usr/bin/awk is symlinked to ../../bin/awk -> gawk
I'm sure the same can be achieved with awk directly.
eg.
awk 'BEGIN { x=0; } { if ($1 !~ /^[ \t]*#/ && $2 == "/") { if (x == 0) { print
$3; x++; }}}' /etc/fstab
Maybe head/tail should be in /bin also?
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