On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Jérôme Poulin <jeromepou...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Jérôme Poulin <jeromepou...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... >> p4 jerome # btrfs device scan /dev/dm-22 >> Scanning for Btrfs filesystems in '/dev/dm-22' >> p4 jerome # echo $? >> 0 > This is OK. > >> p4 jerome # btrfs device scan /dev/sda >> Scanning for Btrfs filesystems in '/dev/sda' >> ERROR: unable to scan the device '/dev/sda' >> p4 jerome # echo $? >> 11 > ... > But isn't that error misleading, btrfs scan was succesfully able to > scan /dev/sda, but, it doesn't contain btrfs, right?
imo, the best way is: # root must be btrfs else silent return [ "$(blkid -s TYPE -o value ${root})" = btrfs ] || return 0 at least that the way i do it in my initramfs hook; seems to be reliable. C Anthony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html