[Nix-dev] fsck try to find /etc/fstab

[Nicolas Pierron]

2007/11/11, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net>:
>
>
> >> 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