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On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:46:04AM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> The minimal initramfs would do the following. |
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> 1. Mount devtmpfs/sysfs/procfs as needed to access devices. |
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> 2. Mount real_root to /newroot |
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> 3. Read /newroot/etc/initramfs.mount and /newroot/etc/fstab |
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> 4.1. If /newroot/etc/initramfs.mount does not exist |
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> Assume it contains only: /usr /var |
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> 5. Mount the combined items from said files |
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Should these be mounted rread-only or just mounted? Also, will |
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fsck still work if they are mounted? |
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I am concerned about /var being included in this because of the |
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potential of filling up the root partition. Upstream is only talking |
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about /usr as stated earlier in this thread, so how are we getting /var |
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involved? |
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William |
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