From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 2 18:39:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB6616A401 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:39:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dhenin@gmail.com) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C14743D5C for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:38:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dhenin@gmail.com) Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m18so290372nfc for ; Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:38:57 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IPORYL+nYWFCRXGLVHHvsZhRruYiG+v79ltAdOrrhACPy911TjQ1fUGf/Dg1eYAS1zNhi2RXtsO5PiZoHc5s22fsEf1AB0NKnt5eDx/B6TLVDlx1Swtx2yiN5Jmmz5aalnxQk79Ls3B2Qn3PAnewdPHiSn3jo69AIXTMlLdtemY= Received: by 10.48.242.3 with SMTP id p3mr145959nfh; Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:38:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.216.14 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 11:38:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <12437d830604021138k79eea297pac7a6ba0f461455e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 20:38:50 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dh=E9nin_Jean-Jacques?=" Sender: dhenin@gmail.com To: valentin_nils@be-known-online.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060402170546.GA70608@owl.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060402162448.bgqmuf5k3t7osgsg@www.be-known-online.com> <20060402170546.GA70608@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Cc: Subject: Re: Passing options to Newfs in the FreeBSD installer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:39:01 -0000 Very nice answer. 2006/4/2, Erik Trulsson : > On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:24:48PM +0000, valentin_nils@be-known-online.c= om wrote: > > Hello FreeBSD Fans ;-), > > > > I have a probably simple question,which kept me busy for several days b= y now. > > I have a few years experience with Linux and would like to extend my kn= owledge > > now to the BSD*s. > > > > Hopefully my question is not too stupid so that somebody can point me i= nto the > > correct direction. Anyway here we go... > > > > During the FreeBSD installation I would like to pass parameters to the = programm > > which creates the filesystem *newfs if I understand that correctly. > > > > I would like to pass the following options: nosuid, noexec, userquota & > > groupquota to some partitions. > > > > Whatever I do - even when I want to pass only a single option - I get a= s a error > > message "Invalid argument" > > > > 1) Are the above options "nosuid, noexec, userquota, groupquota" valid = options > > to be passed to the installer programme newfs or do I have some misspel= ls here > > ? > > Those are not options that can be passed to newfs or used when creating t= he > filesystem. They are options for mount(8) and can be put in /etc/fstab t= o > be used when you are mounting the filesystem. (See the mount(8) and fstab= (5) > manpages.) > > > > > > 2) How would I separate several options in the installers input screen = after > > pressing "G", by komma (,) by semicolon (;) or just by space ( ) ? > > Assuming that you are still talking about options to newfs, you write the > options exactly as you would do on the command line. > (See the newfs(8) manpage for available options.) > > (If you do not have a FreeBSD system available with manpages installed, t= hey > can also be found at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi ) > > > > > I did search the mailing lists up and down and consulted my book from M= ichael > > Lucas and googled, but somehow I didnt find the answer. > > > > I would appreciate any replies. > > > > Best regards > > > > Nils Valentin > > http://www.be-known-online.com > > -- > > Erik Trulsson > ertr1013@student.uu.se > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > -- jjd