[Libguestfs] guestmount without fstab

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 06:21:34PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 February 2016 15:21:17 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > As for the particular question about lack of /etc/fstab.  Are you
> > getting some kind of error when using the guestmount -i option?  It
> > used to be (a long time ago) that libguestfs inspection[1] could not
> > handle guests that did not have /etc/fstab, but that should be fixed
> > in recent versions.
> 
> Not really: /etc/fstab is currently used [1] as criteria to detect
> whether the content of a partition is the root of a Linux installation.

Yup - you're totally right.  I was confusing that with the bug we used
to have if /etc/fstab was empty (RHBZ#1113156).

Something to fix with the new inspection code :-)

Rich.

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