In <pan.2010.02.04.14.28...@gmail.com>, Camaleón wrote: >On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:01:17 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: >> The response I received to >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568200 suggest that the >> responder thinks that running fsck on a non-existent device is the >> proper behaviour /-:. > >I've also found some "opposition" from developers while reporting bugs ;-) > >But I still find the point valid: if a mount point defined in "fstab" is >not present at boot time, it should warn the user and log the error but >the boot process should not be stopped at all because the mount point is >not critical (i.e., is not root "/") for the system to properly start.
There are filesystems other than '/' that I need to have a fully functional system: $ df -Ph Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 981M 466M 515M 48% / tmpfs 2.0G 8.0K 2.0G 1% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 272K 9.8M 3% /dev tmpfs 2.0G 12K 2.0G 1% /dev/shm /tmp 2.0G 32M 2.0G 2% /tmp /dev/mapper/monster-home 1.2T 1.1T 109G 92% /home /dev/mapper/monster-media 4.3T 4.2T 120G 98% /home/bss/media /dev/mapper/monster-opt 1.0G 33M 992M 4% /opt /dev/mapper/monster-srv 1.0G 37M 988M 4% /srv /dev/mapper/monster-usr 8.0G 5.7G 2.4G 72% /usr /dev/mapper/monster-usr.local 1.0G 36M 989M 4% /usr/local /dev/mapper/monster-var 4.0G 1.3G 2.8G 31% /var /dev/mapper/monster-var.cache 8.0G 4.1G 4.0G 51% /var/cache /dev/mapper/monster-var.tmp 4.0G 398M 3.7G 10% /var/tmp -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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