bsdinstall-amd64-20110313 remarks

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Mon Mar 21 15:11:52 UTC 2011


On 03/21/11 05:04, Lars Engels wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:25:36AM +0100, Michael Reifenberger wrote:
>> Hi,
>> yesterday I tested the images listed in the subject and have the following
>> remarks:
>>
>> - At least the memstick image contains an empty fstab
>> - Does the usage of a "dangerously dedikated disklabel" give any advantage?
>> - The usage of an UFS-Label for root mounting should be more flexible
> - UFS-labeling does not work
>
> I let bsdinstall partition the disk automatically and edited the
> proposed partitions to add labels, but after the first boot, neither
> fstab nor /dev/label showed any labels.

The labels are gpart labels, so they show up, e.g., under /dev/gpt. They 
aren't currently used to set up fstab, as it is somewhat difficult to 
predict their path.
-Nathan


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