On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:10:42PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >From looking at the information on this bug, I'm thinking the easiest >way to fix this would be to add code to check the fs type on the >partitions we've been asked to install onto. If the fs is not >ext2/ext3/reiser/etc., then we should complain and (optionally) ask >the user "Are you REALLY sure you want to install onto the <foo> >filesystem on /dev/wherever?". That way people CAN force installation >onto non-standard media, but by default we should not do that. > >Sound reasonable? I'm looking at the code right now to see where to >plug in the check. The best place to make this work _seems_ to be in partman/partman-basicfilesystems/finish.d/check_basicfilesystems. Any basic filesystems should not be allowed on /, /usr, /tmp, var... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?
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