Re: grub-probe without arguments

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Monday 07 May 2007 22:06, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:23:08PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > On Monday 07 May 2007 10:21, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > I think it would be reasonable to allow grub-probe to work without
> > > arguments. Any comments?
> >
> > Why do you think so?
>
> Because it's commonly invoked while debugging.  The uninitiated might have
> some trouble figuring out the right parameter (specialy if they're not
> debugging themselves, but providing information for someone else to debug
> e.g. via BTS).

The right parameter depends on system status. For instance, if you are trying 
to install GRUB from an installer, and a boot partition is mounted at 
somewhere else (e.g. /mnt/boot), it won't work correctly, anyway. I prefer 
that grub-probe gets an argument explicitly, so that the user can at least 
understand that grub-probe probes a certain directory.

Okuji