From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 20:34:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CD581065694; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:34:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF768FC08; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o7HKYEcq092139; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:34:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o7HKYEDd092137; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:34:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <201008172034.o7HKYEDd092137@lurza.secnetix.de> To: walter@pelissero.de Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:34:14 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <19562.55739.75948.533618@zaphod.home.lan> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.3.4 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:34:30 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/149424: fstab and labels with whitespace X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:34:31 -0000 Walter C. Pelissero wrote: > Oliver Fromme writes: > > What prevents you from labelling a disk 'backup\500GB'? > > Besides some remorse about the uninspired name, nothing keeps you from > that. Are you also going to boot from that volume? Because that is > what you were arguing just before. So, if you aren't, your argument > about rendering systems unbootable is moot. You don't have to "boot from it". It's sufficient to have an entry in /etc/fstab that doesn't have "noauto" or "xx". I do have a /backup entry in /etc/fstab on one of my boxes that uses a label for mounting. This particular one does not have backslash in it, but it could well have one. (Why not? A backslash is not special in file names.) And *if* it had one, then that box would *not* boot anymore with the patch in this PR applied. If you don't believe that, I suggest you try it. I'm not going to reply to the rest of your statements which seem to be based on wrong assumptions. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd