Bug#336585: yaird: The fs_freq and fs_passno fields in /etc/fstab are optional
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 17:45 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:22:23 +0000
> "Ian Campbell" <icampbell@arcom.com> wrote:
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> > The problem is that I have several entries in fstab without the
> > optional fifth and sixth fields (fs_freq and fs_passno). The comments
> > around line 49 of /usr/lib/yaird/perl/FsTab.pm suggest that the
> > author was aware that these were optional fields but I thought a bug
> > report was appropriate to stop the problem falling through the cracks.
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> They are optional only?
Yep, the fstab manpage says that if they aren't there you should pretend
they are 0. I doubt yaird cares about the content of these fields
anyhow...
> And upstream knew about it?
The comment in the code is a bit vague, he could be talking about these
fields, or perhaps some other optional extra fields...
Ian.
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