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Subject: Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2013, Kevin Oberman wrote:

>>         One possibility: I believe I labeled each of the partitions during
>> the gpt creation process.  Can I use those labels to (hopefully) by-pass
>> this issue?
>
> Yes! This is the current recommended way of doing it.
>> cat /etc/fstab
> # Device	Mountpoint		FStype	Options		Dump	Pass#
> /dev/gpt/swap	none			swap	sw		0	0
> /dev/gpt/root	/			ufs	rw		1	1
> /dev/gpt/tmp	/tmp			ufs	rw		2	2
> /dev/gpt/usr	/usr			ufs	rw		2	2
> /dev/gpt/var	/var			ufs	rw		2	2

To avoid collisions, I recommend people use unique labels on each 
system.  I sometimes pick a couple of letters from the system name or 
drive: xfswap, xfrootfs, xftmpfs, xfusrfs, xfvarfs.