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#31 some suggestions for improvement

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nobody
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2012-09-10
2006-10-24
fransb
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(This tool works fine; I only use "File Mode" just in
case I would mess up my Debian, e.g. by compiling new
kernels)
I have the following suggestions:
- the program mentions as an example that an image name
can start with "/mnt/local". Program must state that
this is always required (!), or (other solution) g4l
does changedir to /mnt/local just before invoking
partimage.
- if user tries to mount the device with the image for
the 2nd time, program reports an error message. It
would be more correct to also report in this case the
program unmounts that device additionally.
- partimage reports that it would like to start e2fsck,
but cannot find it (no big deal to me). Btw why is
e2fsck left out?

Discussion

  • Michael Setzer II

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    Thanks for the feedback. I kind of took over the project
    since version 0.15, and have mainly worked on the networking
    menu options by adding lots of little things. My own systems
    have lvm partitions, so neither the g4l can mount them, so I
    have never played with the partimage, since it dates back to
    the 0.14 version. I might have upgraded the partimage
    program itself if I had found a newer version, but don't
    recall at the moment.

    Concerning the e2fsck, I hadn't changed anything, so it
    wasn't there before. It would just be a matter of getting a
    copy of e2fsck, probable need to be statically compiled. So,
    it would not be a big deal to add it.

     
  • Michael Setzer II

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    The system now does a umount before mounting, so that is fixed.
    The e2fsck was also added.

     

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