Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] inspect: use /etc/hosts for detecting Linux root (RHBZ#1203898)
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 03:43:40PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
Use /etc/hosts instead of /etc/fstab to detect whether a partition
represents the root of a Linux installation; the latter might not exist
in smaller/special installations like Docker images.
IMHO /etc/hosts is just as unreliable as /etc/fstab.
I'd rather test for /bin/sh being present and being an ELF executable or
shared object.
Roman.