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Re: linux-boot-prober (os-prober)



The Abattoir wrote:
> I'm working on something where it'd be useful to detect existing
> (linux) operating systems using os-prober/linux-boot-prober. It looks
> like linux-boot-prober unmounts a partition( when --mounted is used)
> and remounts them. Is there a reason why it needs to remount a
> partition under '/var/lib/os-prober/mount' instead of detecting where
> the partition is mounted currently and run the tests from there?(hence
> avoiding the unmounting)

I'd be very happy to see a patch that did it that way for --mounted. The
Frugalware guys who contributed --mounted didn't do it that way, since
remounting worked for them and was easier.

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see shy jo

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