Help with fstab

Dorficus has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I have an issue with how I should extract information from my fstab and display it for the user of my script so the user can make reasonable decisions without taking a shot in the dark

The script copies a disk and transfers it to another disk, but if the disk size differs this won't work, so you have to change the partition size of the target disk

As mentioned, I want to provide the user with information about the partitions of the original disk so that they know which disk is the boot partition, now can anyone tell me how I get this information from the fstab?

I am very thankful for any help provided, and if I could solve this problem it'd be great!

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Re: Help with fstab by salva (Canon) on Jan 19, 2012 at 13:00 UTC
`fstab` does not contain information about which one is the boot partition.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Help with fstab by Anonymous Monk on Jan 19, 2012 at 12:20 UTC
http://search.cpan.org/search?query=fstab&mode=all -> Config::Model::models::Fstab config-edit#-ui You're welcome. Nick Burns, Your company's computer guy	[reply]
Re^2: Help with fstab by Dorficus (Initiate) on Jan 20, 2012 at 10:19 UTC
Thanks for the links but I'm new with perl so I have couple of more questions new ( node => $node_obj, name => 'fstab' ) ; read ( io_handle => ... ) write ( io_handle => ... ) This is the code he provides me with, but what should I write instead of "node", "name" and both "..." Any ideas? Sorry for my poor presentation of questions, but my knowledge is poor :(	[reply]
Re^3: Help with fstab by Anonymous Monk on Jan 20, 2012 at 10:42 UTC
What are you talking about? Link please	[reply]
Re^4: Help with fstab by Dorficus (Initiate) on Jan 20, 2012 at 12:21 UTC
Re^5: Help with fstab by roboticus (Chancellor) on Jan 20, 2012 at 13:07 UTC
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