On 23/01/13 21:06, Felix Kuperjans wrote:
Mike Gilbert:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Felix Kuperjans
<fe...@desaster-games.com> wrote:
Samuli Suominen wrote:
please review this news item, seems we need one after all
Hello Samuli,
/dev/root is no longer available in this udev version, so people who put
this in their /etc/fstab might end up with an unbootable system.
I suggest including in the news item, that /dev/root must be replaced
with the actual root device or LABEL=..., UUID=... and the like in
/etc/fstab.
fstab is not consulted for mounting the root filesystem, so it doesn't
really matter what you have in there. Either the kernel mounts it
based on the kernel command line, or your initramfs mounts it based on
whatever your /init programs does.
Well, *if* a line with /dev/root is present in /etc/fstab, the system
does not boot up properly (tested it right now).
I always though such a line in /etc/fstab is needed so that fsck is run
on the root filesystem...
Removing the line completely boots up fine, but the filesystem has not
been fscked on boot.
I don't think we ever instructed users for adding such line... if we
did, I'll eat my words.
So, I don't think it's necessary to instruct them away from it either,
never seen such fstab line.
Maybe I'm too naive.
- Samuli
