[Libguestfs] guestmount without fstab

[Frantisek Kluknavsky]

On 02/23/2016 08:42 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 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.
> 

My intended use-case was to mount a container image that lacks kernel,
fstab and bootloader, not a full virtual machine. Thank you very much
for the explanation. I will try different approaches.

Have a nice day,

Fero

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