| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
blaster999
l33t
Joined: 09 May 2004
Posts: 902
Location: Between keyboard and chair
|
 Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 2:28 pm Post subject: More precise mount error messages? |
 |
|
Not sure if the post should go to Other Things Gentoo, but OTW seems to become a battlefield, not a forum, so I post it here.
Have you mentioned the error message mount gives is almost always the same:
| Code: |
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/something, or too many mounted file systems
|
no matter what's wrong: the filesystem specified, the options, damaged superblock or something else. Would it be nice if, for example, mount returned "mount: Bad option: umask=0" if umask was used on an FS which doesn't support it? Is it technically possible?
I noticed that "bad superblock" is the first part of the phrase the user notices. Then (s)he might think "Oh my! The superblock on my /home partition is b0rked! My porn/mp3s/videos/scientific research data is gone!" when the problem was the incorrect mount option specified.
What do you think?
_________________
60s: sex, drugs, rock'n'roll
90s: sux, bugs, drag'n'drop
---
Some multimedia keys refuse to work? See my mini-howto:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1896734#1896734 |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
blaster999
l33t
Joined: 09 May 2004
Posts: 902
Location: Between keyboard and chair
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
kamagurka
Veteran
Joined: 25 Jan 2004
Posts: 1026
Location: /germany/munich
|
| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:39 pm Post subject: |
|
|
i agree. it would be nice. as it is now, the error might just as well be "duh. something went wrong."
_________________
If you loved me, you'd all kill yourselves today.
--Spider Jerusalem, the Word |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
|
Other Things Gentoo
