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On Sunday, December 20, 2015 05:54:19 AM Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 151220 J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> > On 20 December 2015 05:19:13 CET, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> |
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wrote: |
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> >> My Fstab has long had these lines : |
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> >> # NB The next line is critical for boot! |
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> >> none /proc proc defaults 0 0 |
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> >> |
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> >> When did this change & why ? Does anyone know ? |
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> > It's been deprecated for a while. Not sure when, it was in a news item. |
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> > It certainly hasn't been in stage3 tarballs for the past 2 years. |
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> I checked the default Fstab which came with Stage 3 |
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> & there's no sign of it, so I deleted it, rebooted & everything works. |
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> There were also these lines : |
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> # >= glibc 2.2 expect tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm |
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> # for POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). |
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> # tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk |
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> # and will use almost no memory if not populated with files. |
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> # Adding the following line should take care of this: |
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> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 |
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> I deleted them too & it seems to have had no effect. |
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> However, I was amused to see that the Stage 3 Fstab does have the line : |
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> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0 |
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> Does anyone still use diskettes ? Today's mobos have no slot for them. |
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I actually still have a drive and some diskettes. |
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I also have a USB diskdrive somewhere... |
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Haven't actually checked any mobos for floppy-connectors. Got some old ones |
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that do have a connector. |
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