Changes because I added a new, separate script to mount the target drives.

LDP/howto/docbook/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/scripts/first.stage

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # only option is -c, which forces bad block checking during formatting
 # of the partitions.
 
-# Time-stamp: <2002-07-25 14:22:03 ccurley first.stage>
+# Time-stamp: <2003-01-09 11:32:59 ccurley first.stage>
 
 # Copyright 2002 through the last date of modification Charles Curley.
 
@@ -40,5 +40,23 @@ for drive in $( ls make.dev.* ); do
     ./$drive $blockcheck;
 done
 
-restore.metadata
 
+# WARNING: If your Linux system mount partitions across hard drive
+# boundaries, you will have multiple "mount.dev.* scripts. You must
+# ensure that they run in the proper order, which the loop below may
+# not do. The root partition should be mounted first, then the rest in
+# the order they cascade. If they cross mount, you'll have to handle
+# that manually.
+
+# The "ls -tr" will list the scripts in the order they are created, so
+# it might be a good idea to create them (in the script save.metadata)
+# in the order in which you should run them.
+
+for drive in $( ls -tr mount.dev.* ); do
+    ./$drive;
+done
+
+./restore.metadata
+
+# People who are really confident may comment this line in.
+# reboot

LDP/howto/docbook/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/scripts/make.dev.hda

@@ -25,6 +25,16 @@
 # For more information contact the author, Charles Curley, at
 # http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley/.
 
+
+export blockcheck=$1;
+
+if [ "$blockcheck" != "-c" ] && [ -n "$blockcheck" ]
+then
+    echo "${0}: automated restore with no human interaction."
+    echo "${0}: -c: block check during file system making."
+    exit 1;
+fi
+
 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=2
 
 sync
@@ -34,29 +44,20 @@ fdisk /dev/hda < dev.hda
 sync
 
 echo
-echo formatting and checking /dev/hda1
-mkdosfs -c /dev/hda1
+echo formatting /dev/hda1
+mkdosfs $blockcheck /dev/hda1
 # restore FAT boot sector.
 dd if=dev.hda1 of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1
 
 echo
-echo formatting and checking /dev/hda2
-badblocks -c 128 -o /tmp/dev.hda2 /dev/hda2
-mke2fs -L /boot -l /tmp/dev.hda2 /dev/hda2
+echo formatting /dev/hda2
+mke2fs -j $blockcheck -L /boot /dev/hda2
 
 echo
-echo formatting and checking /dev/hda5
-badblocks -c 128 -o /tmp/dev.hda5 /dev/hda5
-mke2fs -L / -l /tmp/dev.hda5 /dev/hda5
+echo formatting /dev/hda3
+mke2fs -j $blockcheck -L / /dev/hda3
 
-mkswap -c /dev/hda6
+echo Making /dev/hda5 a swap partition.
+mkswap $blockcheck /dev/hda5
 
-
-
-# / is the mountpoint for /dev/hda5.
-mkdir /target/
-mount /dev/hda5 /target/
-
-# /boot is the mountpoint for /dev/hda2.
-mkdir /target/boot
-mount /dev/hda2 /target/boot
+fdisk -l "/dev/hda"

LDP/howto/docbook/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/scripts/restore.metadata

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # and mounted. It also assumes the ZIP disk has already been
 # mounted. Mounting the ZIP disk read only is probably a good idea.
 
-# Time-stamp: <2002-09-10 11:05:43 ccurley restore.metadata>
+# Time-stamp: <2003-01-08 18:26:44 ccurley restore.metadata>
 
 # Copyright 2000 through the last date of modification Charles Curley.
 
@@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ done
 # things.
 
 # If you boot via an initrd, make sure you build a directory here so
-# the kernel can mount the initrd.
+# the kernel can mount the initrd at boot.
 
-for dir in mnt mnt/save mnt/zip mnt/cdrom mnt/floppy mnt/imports proc; do
-mkdir $target/$dir
+for dir in mnt/save mnt/zip mnt/cdrom mnt/floppy mnt/imports proc initrd; do
+mkdir -p $target/$dir
 done
 
 chmod a-w $target/proc		# Restore /proc's read-only permissions