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Re: How to make /etc/fstab "portable"?



mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst) writes:

> This doesn't help for a 'portable' name. You can only have names if you
> use wedges and you must assign a name to be 'portable', i.e. independent
> of the driver name.
>
> I.e.: you use a kernel with DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL, use the disklabel
> program to set the d_packname to something like 'systemdisk' and then use
> NAME=systemdisk/a to refer to the root partition of that disk.

I wonder if it makes sense to reserve "root" as a name, and have it
bound to the kernel-configured root filesystem.

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