Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Quotas broken on DL?

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> > I can do that.  So the only entries in the default lvmtab file are:
> > /home  /opt  &  swap ???
> 
> Probably but why not put the standard LVs there too so the
> user has a place to lock at than to dig into the source of
> the script to find out where things get mounted.

I'd rather add comments in the file explaining how it works.

> > How is  /proc/lvm/VGs/devil-linux/LVs/  different than
> > /dev/devil-linux/ ?   Or which is the best one to use?
> 
> /proc/lvm/VGs/devil-linux/LVs/ is probably the cleaner way. Before
> a certain release of LVM it was not possible to get the info via
> that path, that's why I did stick with the "old" way when I did the
> current script.

OK.

> > You can mount disks on existing directories on the CD, you just can't
> > create new directories.  (i.e.  I can mount something under /mnt)
> > 
> > So, if the directory doesn't already exist, try to create it.  If it
> > can't be created then display an error.
> 
> What I meant was if we have to creat a directory we might want to
> check first if the filesystem is read-only and display an error
> in this case. Can the mkdir fail because of something else? If
> not, then just checking if mkdir fails would do it too I think.

I don't think it matters how mkdir fails.  If it fails for any reason,
the mount will not work, so we might as well just display the error.

 - BS