Matt Burgess wrote: >> Although there isn't really an error, >> On page 17, if the permissions are too restrictive, I think you need >> to clarify what to do about it. You say to remount, but I the average >> person might not know what that means. What I believe you intended >> was to issue the command: >> >> mount -o remount,suid,dev /dev/sd_ >> >> which seemed to do the trick. > > Maybe I'm missing something, but I think that entire paragraph could be > removed. The book gives the command to mount the LFS partition as: > > mount -pv $LFS -v -t ext3 /dev/<xxx> $LFS > > And then warns, effectively, that if you did something like: > > mount -pv $LFS -v -t ext3 -o nosuid,noudev,noatime /dev/<xxx> $LFS > > that you should remount it. Well, yes, obviously. But we didn't ever > tell anyone to mount it with those options. There are a myriad of other > ways that readers can fail to follow the instructions, but we > don't/shouldn't/can't protect/advise against all of them, can we?
I think that admonition is for advanced users. If they are mounting with these options, then they know what they are doing. The warning just means that we do need suid executables, devices, and access time when building. If a user doesn't know what it means, then there's no harm, but we have regular problems with users who think they know a lot and start 'optimizing' right away and then have problems. The paragraph is useful for some users. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
