On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:05:15PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:04:54 +0100
> Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 12:41:48PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> > > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:11:03 +0100
> > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > > I kind of suspect that your root filesystem has no explicit
> > > > filesystem choice, but auto, so changing this auto to ext3 or
> > > > whatever your filesystem is should solve the problem.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I believe so too. But just for the record: avoiding "auto" is just a
> > > workaround, not a bugfix: yaird really should support both "auto"
> > > and "ext3,ext2".
> > 
> > How do you plan to work around auto ? Does yaird have some kind of
> > filesystem probing ? Or would you benefit maybe from a small
> > libparted program that does just that ?
> 
> First step would be to investigate what "auto" actually means. I
> suspect it is a (Debian-specific?) hack related to ext2/ext3, and not
> something expected to globally support all Linux filesystems available.

I don't think so. I think it is similar to when using mount, you can or not
use -t, and it both works.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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