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

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:

> Bruce Smith wrote on 24.12.2003 03:34 MET:
>
>>>>> All LVs get mounted under /var when they're not "special".
>>>>> You get a list of all available LVs in this folder: 
>>>>> /proc/lvm/VGs/devil-linux/LVs/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If we find a LV xyz in the VG devil-linux that is not listet
>>>> in /etc/sysconfig/lvmtab we try to create /var/xyz/ and mount
>>>> it there. Is that what you mean?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, it was my understanding that we exactly do this.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 still think we should this make "automatic", either it's in lvmtab or 
it get's mounted under /var

>> 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. 

Yeah so let's use the proc

>> 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.
>
Agreed, checking if mkdir fails, should be the easiest way.

Heiko