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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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