From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 10:53:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C39F837B401 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:53:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-5-cust38.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.101.150.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17F1B43F85 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:53:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.20) id 19dCwr-000P0t-Hx; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:53:45 +0100 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:53:45 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: David O'Brien Message-ID: <20030717175345.GV403@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , David O'Brien , Alexander Leidinger References: <20030717080805.GA98878@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030717115754.488e9909.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030717091408.A89570@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030717091408.A89570@hub.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: Things to remove from /rescue X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:53:53 -0000 On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:14:08AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:57:54AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > - swapon, this is not needed to fix a whacked out /lib.... unless we add > > > Emacs to /resuce. > > > > I can't come up with a scenario for this, but this doesn't mean there > > isn't one. Do you have a stronger reason than "I don't know how this > > could be useful"? Hmmm... perhaps mounting a mfs disk, untaring > > something to it, searching for the right files... whatever, I think we > > should keep it in /rescue, but I will be quiet if someone removes it. > > You might have a real point there. If one cannot create memory disks w/o > swapon, /rescue/mdmfs needs to learn about this and do the swapon calls. > I wonder how many people would remember to 'swapon' before using 'mdmfs'. As a matter of fact, this bites me every time I boot into single user and run "mount -a -t nonfs". It's simple enough to remember once that fails, but for people who are panicing and haven't seen the error before, it's unlikely to help. Ceri -- User: DO YOU ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOR? Iniaes: Sure, I can accept all forms of payment. -- www.chatterboxchallenge.com