On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 05:18:55AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 October 2009 04:15:46 Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:52:31PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Monday 12 October 2009 21:19:27 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 03:26:30PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 08:07:16PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > > > The bfs/cramfs/minix rarely (if ever?) are used for root
> > > > > > filesystems, so it doesn't make much sense to keep them in the root
> > > > > > partition. Move them to /usr by default.
> > > > >
> > > > > Good idea. Applied, thanks.
> >
> > this was too optimistic...
> >
> > > > FYI: this breaks xfstests as it expects mkfs.* only in /sbin. Wouldn't
> > > > be surprised if others tools do the same.
> >
> > the other example is /sbin/mkfs, this tool uses
> >
> > "PATH=/sbin:/sbin/fs:/sbin/fs.d:/etc/fs:/etc"
>
> you're going to fix it up or should i send a patch ?
Bad question :-)
The question is: do we really expect mkfs.<type> and
fsck.<type> tools in /usr/sbin?
Scott, Kay, any comment or suggestion? It would be nice to minimize
number of differences between (at least mainstream) distributions.
> > > it's already been broken as not all packages install their mkfs/fsck into
> > > /sbin. package PATH assumptions are always invalid anyways.
> >
> > Well, I see /usr/sbin/mkfs.gfs2 only.
>
> i see jffs2, ubifs, msdos, ntfs, vfat
Fedora has msdos, ntfs, vfat in /sbin (and I don't have installed
jffs2, ubifs).
Karel
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