> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 11:20:06 +0100
> From: Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>
> 
> On 2021/08/28 22:28, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > Spotted this at the end of a sysupgrade run. No issue with the reboot but
> > it doesn't look quite right, in particular the newfs_msdos is a bit scary.
> > 
> > [...]
> > Installing xshare70.tgz 100% |**************************|  4505 KB    00:36 
> >    
> > Installing xfont70.tgz  100% |**************************| 39344 KB    01:47 
> >    
> > Installing xserv70.tgz  100% |**************************| 12346 KB    00:11 
> >    
> > Location of sets? (disk http nfs or 'done') [done] done
> > Making all device nodes... done.
> > sh: /sbin/fsck_msdos: not found
> > newfs_msdos: /dev/rsd0i is mounted on /mnt/boot
> 
> Oh and I see why I hit it now, I have this from when I was trying various
> u-boot changes (to make it easier to update the files from the booted system).
> 
> $ grep boot /etc/fstab
> a3d7f93f60aec212.i /boot msdos rw,noatime 1 1

Yeah, that'll break things.  The missing fsck itself isn't fatal since
msdos filesystems don't have a bit to mark them clean and can always
be mounted rw even if they weren't unmounted cleanly.

Should installboot(8) handle the case where the filesystem is already
mounted?

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