From owner-freebsd-qa Thu Mar 22 20:50:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690E737B71A; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:50:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2N4u6S36307; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:56:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:56:06 -0500 (EST) From: Adam To: Cc: Subject: sysinstall disklabel being too helpful Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One thing I noticed about sysinstall recently while dinking with new partitions on a soon-to-be boot disk that sysinstall will try to be helpful by running swapon on any swap partition you make. This is inconvenient because it locks you into your partitioning choices for that drive until reboot. Enabling swap on the partition, as well as mounting the partitions afterwards, should be an option on the disklabel screen and default to off. I have also been burned many years ago when I used sysinstall to make a new partition to contain binaries needed for multiuser, expecting all was sound because sysinstall mounted it, and having the next boot fail because it didnt bother to put it in /etc/fstab for me. I know better now, but it should both mount and append fstab or neither. Thanks Comments about swapon: bsdx, that fucks me off too bsdx: I've run into that before, and we should get it fixed before 4.3-release. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message