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* Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060911 03:15]: > > Ok, I just took some minutes to finally implement it. > > (grml-)rebuildfstab supports LABELs and UUIDs now. > Fantastic. In response to the solicitation for feedback: > An issue we have with USB hard drives is that /mnt subfolders get stale > as hardware changes. Grml creates the /mnt subfolders, but never > deletes them. Obviously not a problem for live CDs, but it is for USB. ACK, good catch. > It would be nice if grml would delete /mnt subfolders for hardware that > it does not detect at boot. > So, how can grml know that it (not the user) created the folder. If the > user created a /mnt subfolder grml probably should not delete it > automatically. > Well, my suggestion: Every time grml creates a /mnt subfolder, drop an > empty file into it named ".grml-auto-created-do-not-delete-this-file" or > something like that. Actually, grml could put useful data into the file > (such as date, UUID, filesystem type, etc.). This file lets grml know > that it has permission to delete the folder. Nice idea! I just implemented it. :) Now running [grml-]rebuildfstab handles the /mnt/*-directories as well. It generates directories for all defined "mounting-targets" and adds an entry to /mnt/.grml-auto-created-do-not-delete-this-file for all automatically generated devices as well. When running [grml-]rebuildfstab once more it checks for present entries and deletes all auto-generated directories in /mnt if there does not exist an entry in /etc/fstab anymore. If you manually create a directory in /mnt/ it won't be touched at all. I'm just preparing the packages grml-rebuildfstab-0.3 and grml-scanpartitions-0.3 and write documentation for all the new stuff. When I've finished testing the packages I'll upload them to the grml-repos and will included them in the upcoming grml 0.8-1 develrelease so you see it in action. :) regards, -mika- -- You like grml? Help us! http://grml.org/donations/ Already on the grml-user-map? http://www.frappr.com/grmlusers Grml Solutions http://solutions.grml.org/
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