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Date:      Thu, 3 Jan 2013 20:24:15 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
Cc:        Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301032021080.99758@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1v_1cAxhn4tZOZ%2BWpS=UoMJA2GFaSpzv7vDvDt%2BTTCqxg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2013, Kevin Oberman wrote:

>>         One possibility: I believe I labeled each of the partitions during
>> the gpt creation process.  Can I use those labels to (hopefully) by-pass
>> this issue?
>
> Yes! This is the current recommended way of doing it.
>> cat /etc/fstab
> # Device	Mountpoint		FStype	Options		Dump	Pass#
> /dev/gpt/swap	none			swap	sw		0	0
> /dev/gpt/root	/			ufs	rw		1	1
> /dev/gpt/tmp	/tmp			ufs	rw		2	2
> /dev/gpt/usr	/usr			ufs	rw		2	2
> /dev/gpt/var	/var			ufs	rw		2	2

To avoid collisions, I recommend people use unique labels on each 
system.  I sometimes pick a couple of letters from the system name or 
drive: xfswap, xfrootfs, xftmpfs, xfusrfs, xfvarfs.



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