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Date:      Fri, 13 Mar 1998 18:55:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Paul Traina <pst@juniper.net>
Cc:        jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dumb question about fstab and 226 beta
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980313185412.19404D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199803140019.QAA01896@red.juniper.net>

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On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Paul Traina wrote:

> Sorry to bug you -- I admit this is a stupid question that should go to
> "questions" but it may have 226 release implications I hadn't seen yet
> on the mailing list (I'm kinda out of date due to travel).
> 
> If this has already been settled, please accept my apologies.
> 
> I just recently upgraded the kernel on a 225 machine to 226 and
> the 226 kernel with 225 /sbin/mount would not allow me to use
> /dev/sd0a in my fstab to represent root.  I had to change it to
> /dev/sd0s1a.  It looks like someone broke the compatibility code.
> I don't know if it was deliberate or not, probably so,  but I think
> this is really going to catch people with their pants down.

I had this happen when i moved from one version to another some time ago.
Looks like your system finally recognized that it's on a sliced disk and
thought to update reality.  Updating /etc/fstab is the correct thing to
do.

This may also happen if your devices were rebuilt.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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