Re: lilo.conf doc suggestion

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi,

Sorry, I had some problems with my mail away ago, so this one
slipped through...

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 09:46:51PM -0500, FITZSIMMONS THOMAS wrote:
> I have a couple of suggestions:
> 
> When the user rm's a partition, parted should probably issue a message
> similar to the Note in section 2.4.12 of doc/USER, advising him to
> update /etc/fstab.
> 
> Also, there should probably be a note in the LILO section of the
> documentation (and perhaps a matching UI message issued after the rm
> command) about changing the root variable in /etc/lilo.conf if the minor
> number of the linux root partition changes.

These are reasonable suggestions, just it isn't clear when to
issue this message.  All the time?  Only if you are renumbering
a partitions that you didn't create in this session?

I think "all the time" is the only reasonable solution in general...

WRT "root", it's really hard to know what root really is.
(For exapmle, if you're using a rescue disk, then root is technically
the rescue disk)  So, I think a warning about lilo and fstab should
appear together.

Thanks,
Andrew