Re: /etc/fstab in NetBSD < current when device numbers are variable

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 19 April 2014 08:07, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost> 
wrote:
>
> Here is my /etc/fstab from NetBSD 6.1-STABLE on 8 GB Kingston Data Traveler:
>
> # NetBSD /targetroot/etc/fstab
> # See /usr/share/examples/fstab/ for more examples.
> /dev/sd0a               /       ffs     rw,log           1 1
> /dev/sd0b               none    swap    sw,dp            0 0
> kernfs          /kern   kernfs  rw
> ptyfs           /dev/pts        ptyfs   rw
> procfs          /proc   procfs  rw
> /dev/cd0a               /cdrom  cd9660  ro,noauto
>
> Problem is I don't always know if USB stick will be /dev/sd0, and an internal 
> media reader can play further havoc with device numbers.
>
> NetBSD-current with NAME= gets around that problem.
>
> What do you do for /etc/fstab?

I have more or less the same fstab. What happens if you stop the boot,
drop to command line and type:
dev

Can you see the Netbsd partition from there?

The bootloader will probably see it as hd1a or hd2a.



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Ottavio