[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release util-linux-2.20.1-1.mga2

David W. Hodgins davidwhodgins at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 19:11:03 CET 2011


On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:33:25 -0400, Dick Gevers <dvgevers at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:15:16 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote about Re:
> [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release
> util-linux-2.20.1-1.mga2:
>>> And this is completely superfluous (also not in fstab):
>>> tmpfs             5.9G     0  5.9G   0% /media

>> This is simply something done by systemd to ensure that /media is
>> writable. Some filesystems have readonly / and thus cannot have such
>> mountpoints added. Using tmpfs ensures that all mount points can be
>> created easily.

That one should definitely get mentioned in the release notes, since
any changes made there manually, will no longer survive across reboots.

Regards, Dave Hodgins


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