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Date:      Sun, 8 Mar 1998 18:05:22 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys reboot.h src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c
Message-ID:  <19980308180522.35587@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199803081532.QAA06008@ocean.campus.luth.se>; from Mikael Karpberg on Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 04:32:10PM %2B0100
References:  <199803081518.HAA10644@dingo.cdrom.com> <199803081532.QAA06008@ocean.campus.luth.se>

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On Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 04:32:10PM +0100, Mikael Karpberg wrote:
> According to Mike Smith:
> > If your boot disk is sliced (has a partition table), and you have not 
> > upgraded /sbin/mount to the most recent version preceeding this change, 
> > you will have problems booting.
> > 
> > This change means that if your current /etc/fstab looks like this:
> > 
> > /dev/xd0a	/	ufs	...
> > /dev/xd0s2e	/usr	ufs	...
> > 
> > you need to update it to look like:
> > 
> > /dev/xd0s2a	/	ufs	...
> > /dev/xd0s2e	/usr	ufs	...
> 
> Er... Excuse me for the maybe silly question, but WHY is this done?

Consistency.  Magic should _not_ happen underneath the partitioning
scheme - partitioning is too important to make it more obscure than it
have to be.

Eivind.

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