From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 19 10:17:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B231065680 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:17:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (unknown [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986C78FC1A for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:17:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m8JAHZf0092866; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:17:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id m8JAHZvl092865; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:17:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:17:35 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200809191017.m8JAHZvl092865@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk, Mel , Robert Lebovich In-Reply-To: <200809190943.m8J9hCbY091595@lurza.secnetix.de> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.4-PRERELEASE-20080904 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:17:36 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:17:38 -0000 Oliver Fromme wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Mel wrote: > > > that's aside from the fact that the root partition '/' always has to be the > > > first partition, for the simple reason that everything else is mounted on top > > > of it. > > > > It's not the partition device names that determine the mount order, but > > the order of the entries in /etc/fstab. > > Actually not even the order in /etc/fstab matters. You can > place the root file system last and it will still work. Uhm, just to be sure: We are talking about the *root* file system here. Of course, the order of the *remaining* file systems in /etc/fstab (without "noauto" flag) *does* matter, because this is the order in which they are mounted by the RC scripts. Only the root file system is special. Best regards Oliver PS: BTW, Mel, your email address doesn't work. I get bounces from your mail server. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "People still program in C. People keep writing shell scripts. *Most* people don't realize the shortcomings of the tools they are using because they a) don't reflect on their workflows and they are b) too lazy to check out alternatives to realize there is help." -- Simon 'corecode' Schubert