Re: [Libguestfs] guestmount without fstab

On 02/23/2016 08:42 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 06:21:34PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: >> On Tuesday 23 February 2016 15:21:17 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >>> As for the particular question about lack of /etc/fstab. Are you >>> getting some kind of error when using the guestmount -i option? It >>> used to be (a long time ago) that libguestfs inspection[1] could not >>> handle guests that did not have /etc/fstab, but that should be fixed >>> in recent versions. >> >> Not really: /etc/fstab is currently used [1] as criteria to detect >> whether the content of a partition is the root of a Linux installation. > > Yup - you're totally right. I was confusing that with the bug we used > to have if /etc/fstab was empty (RHBZ#1113156). > > Something to fix with the new inspection code :-) > > Rich. > My intended use-case was to mount a container image that lacks kernel, fstab and bootloader, not a full virtual machine. Thank you very much for the explanation. I will try different approaches.