anaconda deletes /fsckoptions on F9 based XS

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Sep 17 11:43:45 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 15:21 +1200, Douglas Bagnall wrote:
> The xs-config package creates a file called /fsckoptions (yes, in /),
> to stop headless servers from stalling on fsck questions.

How often are you actually getting to having fsck questions?  ext3
partitions should be set up by default to not run fsck unless it's
really really needed.

> This file is deleted by anaconda, some time after the end of ks.cfg's
> %post section.  To be sure, I used:

It's not deleted by anaconda, it's deleted on boot by rc.sysinit.  See
line 723 or so.

Jeremy




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