Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 18:08:00 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/mount Makefile mount_ufs.c Message-ID: <199803090208.SAA12366@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 08 Mar 1998 16:27:20 %2B0100." <19980308162720.B6719@keltia.freenix.fr>
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> According to Michael Smith: > > This is a compatability hack to deal with the case where the kernel has > > correctly mounted the root filesystem out of its slice, but the user > > has not updated their /etc/fstab file to reflect this. A diagnostic > > is emitted if the mount succeeds, indicating that the file should be > > updated. > > Does this means that one should have > > -=-=-=-=- > /dev/sd0s2a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/sd0s2e /usr ufs rw 1 2 > -=-=-=-=- > > instead of the following ? > > -=-=-=-=- > /dev/sd0a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/sd0s2e /usr ufs rw 1 2 > -=-=-=-=- You can do this *after* you have upgraded your kernel to include the changes I committed this morning. However, you can leave it as-is for now, as long as you have the new mount(8), and boot both old and new kernels. You will get a warning diagnostic from mount while running on the new kernel, which you can ignore until you're changed over. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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