Big Trouble in Little Changes
I was making a few changes today when I ran across this snippet of code. It bothers me. /bin/mkdir /var/lib/docker /bin/mount /dev/Volume00/docker_lv /var/lib/docker echo “/dev/Volume00/docker_lv /var/lib/docker ext4 defaults 1 2″ >> /etc/fstab “Why does it bother you, Bob?” you might ask. “They’re just mounting a filesystem.” My problem is that any change that affects booting is high risk, because fixing startup problems is a real pain. And until the system reboots the person who executes this won’t know that it works. If it doesn’t work it’ll stop during the boot, sitting there waiting for someone with a root password to come fix it. So you’ll have to get a console on the machine and dig up the root password. Then …