ChrisB What does this do?

[mindwave]

Chris,

 

I dont remember where but in one of your documertation sets i saw a comment about ediing

etc\mtools.con

 

and adding MTOOL_SKIP_CHECK=1

 

what does that do?

 

just trying to learn

 

thanks

 

J

[mindwave]

Chris,

 

I dont remember where but in one of your documertation sets i saw a comment about ediing

etc\mtools.con

 

and adding MTOOLS_SKIP_CHECK=1

 

what does that do?

 

just trying to learn

 

thanks

 

J

 

 

Spelling correction

[chris:b]

mtools are tools to work with ms-dos disks. For example you can set a label on a vfat partition with the command mlabel.

When using the mtools in scripts, you don't want that these commands are prompting/asking questions/being verbose.

That breaks the scripts.

MTOOLS_SKIP_CHECK=1

--> let the commands skip certain checks, that would lead to a 'question' when running in a script.

 

Edit: Oops, the following is wrong:

________________

We had some mtools commands in our specific scripts.

But not any longer.

You don't need it.

_______________________________

 

We don't need it in the script that creates the persistent loop file, because we don't work with a label on a vfat partition.

 

But we still need it for the "Create Live USB" script. The syslinux command, which installs the syslinux booloader on the partition, calls a certain mtool utility in the background.

Edited August 31, 2007 by chris:b

[mindwave]

cool

 

thanks

 

j