From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: What is e2initrd_helper? Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:55:17 -0500 Message-ID: <4F85A965.3040008@redhat.com> References: <4F85A740.9080906@ubuntu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ext4 development To: Phillip Susi Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:42200 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752034Ab2DKPzT (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:55:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4F85A740.9080906@ubuntu.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 + + * 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@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html