Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:53:14 GMT From: delphij@FreeBSD.org To: rsimmons0@gmail.com, delphij@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, delphij@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/157933: Install script fails when /root is mounted as its own partition Message-ID: <201108232253.p7NMrE7l065265@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: Install script fails when /root is mounted as its own partition State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: delphij State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 23 22:47:25 UTC 2011 State-Changed-Why: These install.sh scripts are merely provided for user convenience and they are not part of the installer. What they do is to use tar to extract from concatenate of several splitted pieces of installation files and tar would give error messages if a hard link can not be created (because a split /root means it would be a cross-device link which is not permitted) but it would proceed with the files and not stop there. Therefore, this really don't affect installation except the two files that are traditionally hard link from / to /root so what is really being lack of are the two potentionally cross-device links and nothing more. Note that /root in a split partition is not recommended anyways, since you may run into problem in single user mode. If you really need that, what we suggest would be to create the partition after the installation and copy files over. Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->delphij Responsible-Changed-By: delphij Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Aug 23 22:47:25 UTC 2011 Responsible-Changed-Why: Grab. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=157933
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