2007/11/11, Isaac Dupree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Each time I am starting my laptop I have got a huge bip because fsck > >> is worried about my laptop safety. This is due to the missing of the > >> file /etc/fstab > >> > >> I have made a small patch which use the generated file /etc/mtab > >> instead of /etc/fstab. Therefore a bip could be made at the first boot > >> because the file is generated at the Stage 2 and the fsck is done at > >> the Stage 1. So I can start my laptop with no sound which useful for > >> students like me ;p > > > > Thanks, I didn't know about FSTAB_FILE. Committed in r9571. :-) > > (sorry if this is an ignorant comment- ) > > perhaps /proc/mounts would make as much or more sense? On Linux, > /etc/mtab is guaranteed to get confused if you do anything weird with > mounting and chrooting, (and I don't like having a mutable file on my > persistent root filesystem, and putting it in tmpfs is tricky) so on my > GoboLinux system I have it as a symlink to /proc/mounts. If /proc is > mounted in time, then this "Therefore a bip could be made at the first > boot because the file is generated at the Stage 2" would be avoided.
Otherwise the FSTAB_FILE can be set to an invalid path, therefore just a warning will appeared with no bip. -- Nicolas Pierron _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
