Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:39:35 -0400 From: Ralph Dratman <ralph@maxsoft.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why does the label editor not show existing mount points? Message-ID: <v04210108b93f80295f7a@[192.168.1.27]>
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Recently I decided to take Greg Lehey's advice from "The Complete FreeBSD" book and transplant /var into /usr/var. Although I still can't get the procedure to work exactly as Greg presents it (see p. 87), I did eventually make it happen as desired. In the process, I visited the filesystem label editor in sysinstall several times. On each occasion, I had to refer back to an existing df output to remind me where each filesystem is normally mounted, because the label program does not fill in existing mount points. Instead, except for swap partitions, it writes <none> in lieu of my carefully-crafted mount points. Why is this, and should someone (such as myself) modify label to write in the existing mount points from /etc/fstab? I discovered fstab more or less by accident and now realize I can edit the mount points much more easily by modifying that file. But, seems to me, someone who doesn't know this, and is reworking an install, might be better served by using sysinstall with the existing mount points shown. Any insight appreciated. Regards, Ralph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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