On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 16:29 +0100, Seewer Philippe wrote:
> Yanko Kaneti wrote:
> > Just the other day I rebooted with rdbreak with the idea to shrink
> the
> > root fs a little, only to find that none of the fack/resize/tune
> tools
> > for ext3 were actually in the initramfs. Here is a first attempt at
> a
> > basic dracut module that includes those. Worked in brief testing.
>
> Not a bad idea! Just a thought: Why not just add these to the debug
> module?
As far as I understand its off by default which would have also foiled
my initial uninformed attempt at resizing. I kinda expected a generic
initrd to have some basic fs maintenance tools.
>
> >
> > Not really attached to the patch itself, but I would like to have a
> way
> > to include those basic tools one way or the other.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Yanko
> >
> > ---
> > dracut.spec | 11 +++++++++++
> > modules.d/60maint/check | 2 ++
> > modules.d/60maint/install | 2 ++
> > 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100755 modules.d/60maint/check
> > create mode 100755 modules.d/60maint/install
> >
> > diff --git a/dracut.spec b/dracut.spec
> > index 01d58e1..2ac8d52 100644
> > --- a/dracut.spec
> > +++ b/dracut.spec
> > @@ -82,6 +82,13 @@ Requires: %{name}-network = %{version}-%{release}
> > This package requires everything which is needed to build a generic
> > all purpose initramfs with dracut.
> >
> > +%package maint
> > +Summary: dracut module for basic root filesystem maintenance
> > +Requires: e2fsprogs, util-linux-ng
> > +
> > +%description maint
> > +This package requires everything needed for basic root filesystem
> maintenance
> > +from within the initramfs (currently only ext234)
> >
> > %package kernel
> > Summary: Metapackage to build generic initramfs with dracut with
> only kernel modules
> > @@ -183,6 +190,10 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> > %defattr(-,root,root,0755)
> > %doc README.generic
> >
> > +%files maint
> > +%defattr(-,root,root,0755)
> > +%{_datadir}/dracut/modules.d/60maint
> > +
> > %files tools
> > %defattr(-,root,root,0755)
> > %doc COPYING NEWS
> > diff --git a/modules.d/60maint/check b/modules.d/60maint/check
> > new file mode 100755
> > index 0000000..fc59a03
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/modules.d/60maint/check
> > @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> > +#!/bin/bash
> > +which fsck fsck.ext4 fsck.ext2 fsck.ext3 resize2fs tune2fs
> >/dev/null
> > diff --git a/modules.d/60maint/install b/modules.d/60maint/install
> > new file mode 100755
> > index 0000000..e7f2848
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/modules.d/60maint/install
> > @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> > +#!/bin/bash
> > +dracut_install fsck fsck.ext4 fsck.ext2 fsck.ext3 resize2fs tune2fs
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