Re: Bug#322205: udev: vol_id crashes on usb storage device
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:45:22PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Aug 11, Horms <horms@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > Is it the case that a) the flash does indeed contain a corupted file
> > system, or b) vol_id's bogusness (or something else) is causing a mount
> > request for something that is invalid, and from there the kernel' can't
> > mount anything on the device, even things that are valid?
> vol_id just reads the superblock, so I think it's a.
If its a) and the file system is corrupted, then the kernel isn't going
to be able to read it. I'm really not clear on what you expect to happen.
> > BTW, vol_id doesn't have a man page, is there some documentation for
> > it somewhere else.
> No, but it's also a very simple program.
Ok, does it do anything other than read the superblock?
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Horms
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