Bug#239111: Bug#254919: your mail

[Joey Hess]

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Robert Millan wrote:
> tags 239111 confirmed
> thanks
>=20
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:36:26AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:10:38AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:11:45PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> > > > +# Sync the filesystem to help XFS (and possibly others) to find the
> > > > +# stageX files (see Debian bugs #239111, #246111, #243835)
> > > > +/bin/sync
> >=20
> > > Never use absolute paths.
> >=20
> > It is also questionable whether sync is sufficient to get the data on
> > disk into a state where grub can make use of it.  The necessary command
> > seems to be xfs_freeze, as previously discussed on-list.
>=20
> That means we should call "sync" and then call "xfs_freeze" if it is found
> in path, right?

You should check to see if the filesystem containing boot/grub is an
XFS filesystem. If so, run xfs_freeze -f on the mount point of that
filesystem before running grub, and then xfs_freeze -u afterwards. A
sync before the freeze will not solve the problem (in my testing) but
can't hurt.

--=20
see shy jo

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