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Re: It Works!



On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 04:45:50PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:43:42PM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> > > 1. When the native-install crashed on me (see below) there was no way
> > > to get things working without going to a running Linux and doing and e2fsck.
> > > This was because there was no /dev/hd0s[0-9] to do an e2fsck on. Is there
> > > no way to create this node before the hurd boots just in case?
> > 
> > Not yet. Please write a "settrans" for linux.
> 
> BTW, this would be a straightforward addition to debugfs.

Should we add it to the task list? I think it is extremely useful.
A standalone utility would also be nice iff debugfs can't be used easily in
batch mode for scripts.

Of course, the same applies to showtrans.

Marcus

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