12 September 2008 c. 21:13:55 Nick Guenther wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Joseph A Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > but i'll have to change it every time i add or remove a hard
> > diskwhich can be pretty frequent.
> >
> > if the total number of drives in the system is not the same from
> > boot to boot, i have to tweak fstab.
> > is it possible for a future update of OpenBSD to tweak fstab to take
> > references to the boot drive? that should help a lot in such cases.
> > I could spout a lot of ideas, like having a unique identifier
> > (combination of timestamp and netcard/cpu id?) in the boot block for
> > reference in fstab, but i'm no expert.
>
> Maybe a stupid idea: Could you hack /etc/rc to add a tiny script that
> reads the last line of dmesg to find where the root disk is and then
> rewrites fstab dynamically before `mount -a` gets run? I have OpenBSD
> on a thumbdrive that will be sd0 typically unless there are other
> thumbdrives/SATA drives plugged into the system I happen to be booting
> on and so I considered this but wasn't bold enough to edit rc
I thought of adding new sysctl(s) like "hw.rooton", even started to hack
but had to stop due to lack of time. :( It should be simple enough IMHO,
though.
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Best wishes,
Vadim Zhukov
