Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:34:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: walter@pelissero.de Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/149424: fstab and labels with whitespace Message-ID: <201008172034.o7HKYEDd092137@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <19562.55739.75948.533618@zaphod.home.lan>
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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
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