On Saturday 26 November 2005 11:44, Rob Landley wrote: > On Friday 25 November 2005 17:33, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > - back in 2.4, tmpfs on /tmp broke mkinitrd since it tried to loop-mount > > the new initrd, which was in /tmp. And loop-mount over tmpfs didn't work. > > I vaguely remember this being fixed. :) Yep, it was, but at 2.4.18 (my first kernel) it wasn't yet. > > He had never known that "mount" lists mounts... > > I try not to assume that people know everything there is to know about > Unix. I've done my share of stupid things, but he's _payed_ as a sysadmin (though he's actually a programmer) and I learned this time ago, and since I started using Linux <=3.5 years ago, time ago means at the very beginning ... he _should_ know that. However he had backups - which shows he's well intentioned. (as an aside, I do despise learning *so* fast... I wouldn't be able to use socket() without manuals, and there's a lot of stuff I'd like to learn well. And I'd really like to _start_ and finish even a little project on my own... it's years I don't start coding some fun project up). > And the default seems to be that /tmp ain't tempfs, but /dev/shm is. I argue for that too... > > (Btw, the problem was that he added a new external disk, but labeled it > > /boot, like an existing /boot partition , so mount -a choked with > > "duplicate label '/boot'" and it stopped before mounting /home). > He's using Red Hat, isn't he? :) Yes... > (Been there, done that, moved the darn labels to /dev/hda4 and such. > Wouldn't recommend that with SCSI because the scsi bus detects devices via > chicken entrails and then enumerates them in sequence (with no gaps) on a > first come first served basis. With ATA, /dev/hdd3 means second > controller, slave device, third partition, and that doesn't move unless you > physically unplug it from its connector cable, no matter what else you plug > in. The whole _reason_ Red hat has this boot label stuff is some people > have an unreasoning love of SCSI devices. :) Well, it makes sense anyhow, and though it's unusual and it sucks for the user, it would be much more meaningful to use labels rather than partitions (when repartitioning the same can happen - and I've seen the bloody hell happen with partition tables > google dar linux: > Some french disk archiving tool, apparently. I generally just use tarballs > or rsync. It's clear Nix is using some calculation program (not sure what's it). -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
