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From: Alex Popov <aopopov@yahoo.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: bsdinstall does not use partition labels in /etc/fstab
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>Number:         169077
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       bsdinstall(8) does not use partition labels in /etc/fstab
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-geom
>State:          analyzed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 14 18:20:01 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jun 18 03:49:07 UTC 2012
>Originator:     Alex Popov
>Release:        9.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD black.home 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan  3 07:46:30 UTC 2012     root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

>Description:
As of 9.0, bsdinstall requires to enter partition labels. This is to prevent name collision in case drives are added/moved to other ports, etc.
So I would expect that instead of device names such as /dev/ada0p2, bsdinstall writes partition labels into /etc/fstab.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
manually change /etc/fstab

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Jun 17 22:34:37 UTC 2012 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer(s). 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=169077 
State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed 
State-Changed-By: nwhitehorn 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jun 18 03:45:46 UTC 2012 
State-Changed-Why:  


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=169077 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-sysinstall->freebsd-geom 
Responsible-Changed-By: nwhitehorn 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Jun 18 03:48:00 UTC 2012 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Reassigning to freebsd-geom. 

Using partition labels is not currently possible without integration of 
partition labels into the gpart module. The current mechanism that makes 
labeled devices show up in /dev is unreliable, does not apply to all 
partition schemes, and may not be present. There were experimental patches 
from ae@ but unfortunately I do not believe they have been committed. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=169077 
>Unformatted:
