Bug#336585: yaird: The fs_freq and fs_passno fields in /etc/fstab are optional
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 21:53 +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:22:23AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > Package: yaird
> > Version: 0.0.11-10
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > When running yaird I get the following:
> > $ sudo /usr/sbin/yaird --output /tmp/initrd 2.6.14-1-386
> > yaird error: malformed line in /etc/fstab:14 (fatal)
> > this also effects the linux-image-2.6.14-1-386 package.
> >
> > 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.
>
> What about fs_mntops? I have
> sysfs /sys sysfs
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/tmp0 reiser4
>
> if also options are optional
fstab(5) says "It contains at least the type of mount..." which I would
take to mean there must be at least one option. I don't know what it
means by type here but I guess at least "defaults" should be present.
Ian.
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