On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I remember some early 5.1 snapshot which installed and successfully run >>> without /etc/fstab >>> however, 5.1-RELEASE came with /etc/fstab >>> >>> it would be nice to move system from one server to another without having >>> to bother about /etc/fstab (I moved several of them due to buggy hardware). >>> is it possible to run without /etc/fstab ? is it supported configuration ? >> >> Sorry, but you are wrong. >> >> A system must have a /etc/fstab file, and it is created by the installer. > > To "move" or replicate a system to other hardware, the /etc/fstab > aneeds to be reviewed and edited for any partition layout, or it will > not be able to find the partitions for "/" or other partitions you > happen to need. Some folks get cute and do NFS or similar targets with > automounting of varous sorts, so those aren't in fstab on such > systems. I've never seen anyone using that on OpenBSD.
afaik, the duid is stored on the disklabel, so if you're making images of the media there's no need to edit fstab > > I've done this sort of replicate-and-edit-config-files stunt for > roughly 20,000 hosts in my careerm, espcially 15,000 Linux hosts in > one month, so I know the approach can be much faster than installing > from normal installation media. your sites are extremely heterogeneous
