Comment 9 for bug 8058

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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:33:56 +0200
From: Robert Millan <email address hidden>
To: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#239111: Bug#254919: your mail

tags 239111 confirmed
thanks

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
>
> > Never use absolute paths.
>
> 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.

That means we should call "sync" and then call "xfs_freeze" if it is found
in path, right?

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Robert Millan

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