Re: Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-11 Thread Dave Hayes
Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe it comes from the /etc/fstab that is unpacked into ram disc, that is extracted from the 2.88M boot floppy, that is part of a bootable CD ? I checked this, boot.flp contains the stuff under /boot and kernel.gz and that's it. Interestingly enough,

Re: Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-09 Thread Julian Stacey
There is none. No default fstab exists. Maybe it comes from the /etc/fstab that is unpacked into ram disc, that is extracted from the 2.88M boot floppy, that is part of a bootable CD ? ( BTW if you'r going to get into questions around bootable cdroms etc, it's a frequent area of interest on

Re: Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Dave Hayes wrote: David O'Brien -Hackers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You mentioned though that your CDROM is /. How about posting the real /etc/fstab from your root partition for us to have a look at? There is none. No default fstab exists. There is no Dana, only Zuul... I think that

Re: Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Hayes
Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. Yep, good that you asked this, but not the problem. I not only set this field to zero *I deleted

Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Hayes
If I boot from a CDROM (of my own creation admittedly), fsck -p wants to fsck the CD partition, /dev/ad0c. It is mounted as root. I look at the source and in preen.c I'm not able to see any way for fsck to do that. Granted I've never looked at fsck source before (I looked in /usr/src/sbin/fsck

Re: Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-07 Thread David O'Brien -Hackers
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 03:32:19PM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. Yep, good that you asked this,

Re: Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Hayes
David O'Brien -Hackers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You mentioned though that your CDROM is /. How about posting the real /etc/fstab from your root partition for us to have a look at? There is none. No default fstab exists. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED]