[Bug 770355] New: Directory boot in /boot linked to . (dot)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770355 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770355#c0 Summary: Directory boot in /boot linked to . (dot) Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.2 Version: Beta 2 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: richard.bos@xs4all.nl QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1 Just discovered today that /boot contained a directory called boot pointing to "." This was on version M3 and beta2. No further information for this issue. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. cd /boot 2. ls -l Actual Results: # /boot boot -> . This results in something circular .... Expected Results: The directory /boot/boot should not be around (I think, or it should not point to ".", but to something usefull) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770355 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770355#c1 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED CC| |mrmazda@earthlink.net Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #1 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> 2012-07-09 04:39:09 UTC --- It's useful to Grub, which normally expects to find such files as /boot/grub/menu.lst, but cannot on a partition normally mounted separately to the boot directory on the / partition, in which case without the symlink to . wouldn't be able to during normal boots, as the partition at the point where menu.lst needs to be read hasn't been mounted anywhere yet. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770355 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770355#c2 --- Comment #2 from Richard Bos <richard.bos@xs4all.nl> 2012-07-09 17:09:06 UTC --- Thanks Felix. Just a remark: wouldn't it be possible to make yast smarted and only provide the link when /boot is located on its own partition. Now many systems are configured with circular reference in the file system (/boot/boot -> .), for only a few real occasions... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770355 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770355#c3 --- Comment #3 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> 2012-07-09 23:59:24 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2)
wouldn't it be possible to make yast smarted and only provide the link when /boot is located on its own partition. Now many systems are configured with circular reference in the file system (/boot/boot -> .), for only a few real occasions...
How few is "few"? I have zero out of >30 systems lacking a separate boot partition. It's pretty common to have at least one separate partition to mount as /boot in multiboot, RAID and encrypted partition environments. To have what you ask, someone with the know how would have to decide it's important enough to spend the time to add the increased intelligence, after which maintenance could well be non-zero as well. I doubt many ordinary ordinary users would discover or understand the existence of that symlink, much less object to it. If you think it's worthy, ask for it in openFATE, and find out what kind of comments and votes appear. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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