Things to remove from /rescue

[Ceri Davies]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:14:08AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:57:54AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > > - swapon, this is not needed to fix a whacked out /lib.... unless we add
> > >   Emacs to /resuce.
> > 
> > I can't come up with a scenario for this, but this doesn't mean there
> > isn't one. Do you have a stronger reason than "I don't know how this
> > could be useful"? Hmmm... perhaps mounting a mfs disk, untaring
> > something to it, searching for the right files... whatever, I think we
> > should keep it in /rescue, but I will be quiet if someone removes it.
> 
> You might have a real point there.  If one cannot create memory disks w/o
> swapon, /rescue/mdmfs needs to learn about this and do the swapon calls.
> I wonder how many people would remember to 'swapon' before using 'mdmfs'.

As a matter of fact, this bites me every time I boot into single user and
run "mount -a -t nonfs".  It's simple enough to remember once that fails,
but for people who are panicing and haven't seen the error before, it's
unlikely to help.

Ceri
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