On Tue, Feb 18, 2003, Ira Abramov wrote about "Re: Guessing filesystem while
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Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED], from the post of Tue, 18 Feb:
> That was unintentional and might go to show my point that I couldn't
> tell (or it was very obscure to me) whether your message was private
> or public.
if your MUA is so "dumbed down" that you can't tell if a mail was sent
to you, the lis
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> Dear Amos,
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> When I replied privately to you in the message you quote, I did it
> for a reason. By replying to the list, you are making tje unforgivable
> sin
Dear Amos,
When I replied privately to you in the message you quote, I did it
for a reason. By replying to the list, you are making tje unforgivable
sin of making private a public correspondence. With every additional
message you send, you take another gigantic leap towards my
killfile. Please ha
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:41:01PM +0200,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Why can't people learn to use procmail? it's annoying!
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> > Because part of supporting open standards is that you don't
> have to use
> > specific software in order to enjoy a forum properly. I
> can't use procmail
> -Original Message-
> From: Muli Ben-Yehuda
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 1:29 PM
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> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:09:36AM +0200, Arik Baratz wrote:
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> > Why can
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:09:36AM +0200, Arik Baratz wrote:
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> Why can't the mailing list server put itself in the Reply-To: field?
> It's annoying!
Why can't people learn to use procmail? it's annoying!
ObLinux: Alan Cox has decreed that 2.5 is "approaching usability". (My
words, not his). G
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003, Uri Itscowits wrote about "Re: Guessing filesystem while
unmounted":
> First I want to thank everybody for the time & effort,
> ( although some responses show,
> some guys did NOT spend enough time reading my problem all the way {:< )
:)
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:09:36AM +0200, Arik Baratz wrote:
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> Why can't the mailing list server put itself in the Reply-To: field? It's annoying!
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Yedidyah Bar-David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> [snip]
>
> > In practice, it happened to me quite many t
Why can't the mailing list server put itself in the Reply-To: field? It's annoying!
> -Original Message-
> From: Yedidyah Bar-David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
[snip]
> In practice, it happened to me quite many times that a used FAT
> partition was mke2fsed, used (as ext2), and then mount
Hi all,
First I want to thank everybody for the time & effort,
( although some responses show,
some guys did NOT spend enough time reading my problem all the way {:< )
Since no one gave me a good answer,
(except for Muli's, which was my idea to begin with)
I tried to look for the way
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:49:26PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:48:07PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
>
> > Note, by the way, that newer distributions (such as Redhat 8) use Grub,
> > not LILO, so anything relying on the structure of a lilo boot record
> > isn't foolproo
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:02:59PM +0200, Uri Itscowits wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I need to guess which is the root filesystem ( on GNU/Linux OC),
> while all partitions are still unmounted.
>
> I could of course mount each in turn, and look for /etc/fstab or so,
> but I am looking for a way w
> -Original Message-
> From: Arik Baratz
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 7:28 PM
> Subject: RE: Guessing filesystem while unmounted
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Uri Itscowits [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > Hi there,
> -Original Message-
> From: Uri Itscowits [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Hi there,
>
> I need to guess which is the root filesystem ( on GNU/Linux OC),
> while all partitions are still unmounted.
>
> I could of course mount each in turn, and look for /etc/fstab or so,
> but I am l
doing :
awk '{if ($2=="/")print $1}' /etc/fstab
will print either the root partition (e.g. /dev/hda2 ) or the root
label ( e.g. LABEL=/ )
the first is trevial,
the second, can be found by running e2label on all partitions and seeing
wich has the right label
erez.
Uri Itscowits wrote:
Hi th
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003, Orna Agmon wrote about "Re: Guessing filesystem while unmounted":
> > Well, as far as I know Grub does not know where your root filesystem ("/")
> > lives, until it first finds the boot filesystem, finds the grub/grub.conf
> > file in it
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> Well, as far as I know Grub does not know where your root filesystem ("/")
> lives, until it first finds the boot filesystem, finds the grub/grub.conf
> file in it (grub understands the ext2 filesystem), reads it and finds there
> the specification of whe
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: Guessing filesystem while
unmounted":
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:48:07PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> > Note, by the way, that newer distributions (such as Redhat 8) use Grub,
> > not LILO, so anything rely
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:48:07PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> Note, by the way, that newer distributions (such as Redhat 8) use Grub,
> not LILO, so anything relying on the structure of a lilo boot record
> isn't foolproof either.
I never investigated this, so take it with a grain of salt, but
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: Guessing filesystem while
unmounted":
> You can do it the same way the kernel does it in the early boot stages
> - by getting the information from lilo, via the boot record. You'll
> need to read and parse the boot
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:57:52PM +0200, Uri Itscowits wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I need to guess which is the root filesystem ( on GNU/Linux OC),
> while all partitions are still unmounted.
You can do it the same way the kernel does it in the early boot stages
- by getting the information from l
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