Re: Specifying root device in /etc/fstab

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost (Jared McNeill) writes:

>I came up with this simple patch to getfsspecname that allows ROOT=<part> 

ROOT=<part> only works for your special case where you know the root
partition. An alias that represents device+partition would be more
versatile.

For that DEV_USES_PARTITIONS (from kern_subr.c) also needs to be exposed
a bit more.

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