Bug#670585: "ok hat location is writable"

Dmitry Bogatov KAction at debian.org
Thu May 9 08:35:30 BST 2019


[2019-05-08 14:57] Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
> > Problem is that I do not understand, when /var/log/fsck exist for sure.
> > 
> > Collegues, I need help with evaluating proposed change.
> > 
> Hi,
> I guess if it is a one partition only setup /var/log will
> exist as soon as as root is switched from initrd and/or
> remounted read-write, if it is a multi-partition setup
> with separated partitions for /tmp, /home and /var,
> /var will exist as soon as root is switched from
> initrd but /var/log will exist only after /var is mounted.

So it means, that check 'test -w "${FSCK_LOGFILE}"' that you proposed is
only meaningful after 'mountall', but not in 'checkfs'. So I have to
keep more vague

	"Log is being saved in ${FSCK_LOGFILE} if that location is writable"

Did I miss something?
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