From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RW7Pd-0005TV-5e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:14:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AB3D21C023; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 14:14:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DFAF21C023 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 14:13:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghbg18 with SMTP id g18so2297354ghb.40 for ; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:13:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=xm4TvKGaYFnvy4Ld/moSMRkS2iqh7WBlZtzIOl4s9TM=; b=fBQZx417F9FuVtqGRLyL3y+Wa+JcFliCATebg6Hs2Rqyiprcrksduw/OXQaRUk6fHM 1Jyfcymaey8FQiwnXbwv0DyYqVNCr7a9cucSk0tL05qEnWwLZ60dxUBRdIpahrmBJt7c B7DSaCkYn9iIpsPYJlO5nCkbttB957JDrMhFE= Received: by 10.236.78.74 with SMTP id f50mr11648085yhe.130.1322748806991; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:13:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-128-85.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.128.85]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 36sm6159773anz.2.2011.12.01.06.13.25 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:13:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4ED78B84.3030004@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:13:24 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption References: <20111130152753.176a9a08@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <4ED67664.1060302@gmail.com> <20111130202828.34f30c74@karnak.local> <20111130214733.19888eb1@digimed.co.uk> <20111130220735.5105ba14@karnak.local> <20111130232656.45b21f47@digimed.co.uk> <20111201002706.5a77f2fd@karnak.local> <20111201084727.3076a3a9@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20111201134301.662c7899@memphis.local> <20111201140318.1b118a3e@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20111201140318.1b118a3e@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ba2c462c-1510-4b99-9efe-937294c7dbe9 X-Archives-Hash: 8b00aaffb63ff9bf51a6846e06565e6f Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:43:01 +0000, David W Noon wrote: > >>> I understand that, but not why you need to run e2fsck before the >>> switch_root. Is this to do with the way your system is set up? The >>> object of the initramfs is only to get the system into a state where / >>> can be mounted and switch_root run, I assume you are trying to do more >>> than that with it. >> The objective is to get /, /usr, /var and any other directory path the >> user feels is needed mounted before udev starts. This is a >> continuation of the "udev now sucks" thread from a few months ago. >> >> I need to fsck / before I mount /usr, /var and everything else. > Now it makes sense, but can't you use busybox fsck? > > I thought the file system was mounted ro, then the file system checks done, then remounted rw and boot continues on? I see mine do this without the init thingy and from what I see as things zoom by, that is what it does. What am I missing here? Just curious. No flaming please. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!