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authorFernando Reyes (likewhoa) <design@missionaccomplish.com>2014-07-10 03:53:07 +0200
committerRick Farina (Zero_Chaos) <zerochaos@gentoo.org>2015-08-11 14:21:16 -0400
commit466e9c7220d6c656113457ddf5aa35c5265a6b7c (patch)
tree22bde8d5c6b65da7106463c986c243cad276f638 /defaults/initrd.scripts
parentThis is commit contains several changes summarized below. (diff)
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Changed to the dd command which creates the livecd.aufs image for
the aufs writable branch to make the process faster we create a sparse file. Added a check for a block device so that we don't try mounting the aufs device & some small comestic changes.
Diffstat (limited to 'defaults/initrd.scripts')
-rw-r--r--defaults/initrd.scripts33
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/defaults/initrd.scripts b/defaults/initrd.scripts
index 2e48504..5c7703b 100644
--- a/defaults/initrd.scripts
+++ b/defaults/initrd.scripts
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ create_changefs() {
local size
while :; do
- read -p '<< Size of file (Press Enter for default 256 Mb): ' size
+ read -p '<< Size of file (Press Enter for default 256 MB): ' size
size=${size:-256}
@@ -386,13 +386,13 @@ create_changefs() {
elif [ 15 -ge "$size" ]; then
bad_msg "Please give a size of at least 16 Megabytes"
else
- if dd if=/dev/zero "of=$aufs_dev_mnt$aufs_union_file" bs=1M count="$size" &>/dev/null; then
- good_msg "Creation of $aufs_union_file, ${size}Mb on $aufs_dev successful, formatting it ext2"
+ if dd if=/dev/zero "of=$aufs_dev_mnt$aufs_union_file" bs=1 seek="$size"M count=0 &>/dev/null; then
+ good_msg "Creation of $aufs_union_file, ${size}MB on $aufs_dev successful, formatting it ext2"
mke2fs -F "$aufs_dev_mnt$aufs_union_file" &>/dev/null
break
else
rm "$aufs_dev_mnt$aufs_union_file"
- bad_msg "Unable to create ${aufs_union_file#*/} on $aufs_dev of ${size}Mb"
+ bad_msg "Unable to create ${aufs_union_file#*/} on $aufs_dev of ${size}MB"
bad_msg "Ensure your disk is not full or read-only"
read -p '<< Type "a" to abort, anything else to continue : ' doabort
@@ -410,13 +410,19 @@ create_changefs() {
setup_aufs() {
bootstrapCD
- if [ -n "$aufs_dev" ]; then
- good_msg "Mounting $aufs_dev to $aufs_memory for aufs support"
+ if [ -n "$aufs_dev" ]; then
+ if [ ! -b $aufs_dev ]; then
+ bad_msg "$aufs_dev is not a valid block device"
+ local invalidblk=1
+ unset aufs_dev
+ else
+ good_msg "Mounting $aufs_dev to $aufs_memory for aufs support"
- if ! mount -t auto "$aufs_dev" "$aufs_dev_mnt" &>/dev/null; then
- bad_msg "Mount of $aufs_dev failed, falling back to ramdisk based aufs"
- unset aufs_dev
- fi
+ if ! mount -t auto "$aufs_dev" "$aufs_dev_mnt" &>/dev/null; then
+ bad_msg "Mount of $aufs_dev failed, falling back to ramdisk based aufs"
+ unset aufs_dev
+ fi
+ fi
# Check and attempt to create the AUFS union file
if [ ! -e $aufs_dev_mnt$aufs_union_file ] && [ -n "$aufs_dev" ]; then
@@ -455,7 +461,12 @@ setup_aufs() {
aufs_xino=$aufs_memory
umount "$aufs_memory" &>/dev/null
- bad_msg "Create an extfs ${aufs_union_file#*/} file on this device"
+ if [ 1 = "$invalidblk" ]; then
+ bad_msg "Verify that you've entered a valid device path"
+ else
+ bad_msg "Create an extfs ${aufs_union_file#*/} file on this device"
+ fi
+
bad_msg "if you wish to have aufs data persistency on reboots"
bad_msg "Falling back to ramdisk based aufs"
good_msg "Mounting ramdisk to $aufs_memory for aufs support"