On 4/11/12 10:46 AM, Phillip Susi wrote: > I came across this program in e2fsprogs and it doesn't seem to have a > man page. What is its purpose? Looking at the code, it appears to > extract the fs type listed in the /etc/fstab of the root fs before it > is mounted, but why? +2004-09-18 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> + + * e2initrd_helper.c: New program which allows initrd scripts to + check on the contents of /etc/fstab without (a) needing to + mount the root filesystem, and (b) needing /bin/awk in the + initrd environment. (Addresses Debian Bug #247775) + Other than that, I dunno, but Ted might. :) -Eric > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
