On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 04:52:15PM +0100, Joost van Baal wrote: > One little question: I've got my disk layed out like this under > linux: > > /dev/hda1 /gnu > /dev/hda2 / > /dev/hda6 /usr > /dev/hda7 /home > /dev/hda8 /var > > I'd like to see my linux filesystem while running the hurd, and I'd > like to mount this readonly. (Apart from /home .) If I do, while > running the hurd: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /# settrans -c /linux /hurd/ext2fs -r /dev/hd0s2 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /# settrans -c /linux/home /hurd/ext2fs /dev/hd0s7 > settrans: /linux/usr: Read-only file system > > Of course: I understood a translator wants to write in the > filesystem. How could I achieve this? I don't think symlinks will > help in this case.
Well, there is a tradeoff. If you use a passive translator, it will be broken under Linux, right? Indeed, a symlink approach might be very helpful here. You could link /home [under linux] to /trick17/home, which is a translator for hd0s7 on the Hurd filesystem (hda1), and a mount point for hd0s7 on linux. To avoid all of this, you can just set an active translator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /# settrans -ac /linux/home /hurd/ext2fs /dev/hd0s7 (note the -a option). This should not write anything to /linux. You need to repeat the command at every boot, though. > And another thing: is there support for shadow passwords in the > hurd? I saw it's not used when doing the tar-install. Yes. "shadowconfig on", as on linux. It is not the default in Debian, but I think it might be an option in the installation routine. It will be an option in ours, too, when we have one :) Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
