From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 21 15:11:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4771065670 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:11:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from agogare.doit.wisc.edu (agogare.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4CD38FC15 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:11:51 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LIE0000KVFRO100@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:11:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.65.155]) by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LIE00ADIVFL0630@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:11:46 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:11:45 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <20110321100428.GN90300@e.0x20.net> To: Lars Engels Message-id: <4D875CA1.8020607@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.65.155 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-13, Version=5.6.0.2009776, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.3.21.140625, SenderIP=76.210.65.155 References: <20110321100428.GN90300@e.0x20.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110305 Thunderbird/3.1.9 Cc: FreeBSD-Current Subject: Re: bsdinstall-amd64-20110313 remarks X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:11:52 -0000 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