Jonathan Oksman wrote: > Near the end of the chapter, the book recommends users of the ext3 > filesystem to use hdparm to test if a disk is able to accept the > barrier=1 mount feature. > > This is a good suggestion, but it doesn't say anything about hdparm > beyond that. The current instructions as written imply that the user > already has hdparm installed which might confuse new users. I'm sure > most people will be able to figure it out, but for clarity I think it > would be worth mentioning that instructions for hdparm are in BLFS so > people don't assume hdparm is part of their system already.
The reference to hdparm in the descriptive paragraph is already a link to the BLFS hdparm page. However, you probably want to run it from the host system when creating fstab before the first boot into LFS. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
