Re: Passing options to Newfs in the FreeBSD installer
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:24:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello FreeBSD Fans ;-), I have a probably simple question,which kept me busy for several days by now. I have a few years experience with Linux and would like to extend my knowledge now to the BSD*s. Hopefully my question is not too stupid so that somebody can point me into the correct direction. Anyway here we go... During the FreeBSD installation I would like to pass parameters to the programm which creates the filesystem *newfs if I understand that correctly. I would like to pass the following options: nosuid, noexec, userquota groupquota to some partitions. Whatever I do - even when I want to pass only a single option - I get as a error message Invalid argument 1) Are the above options nosuid, noexec, userquota, groupquota valid options to be passed to the installer programme newfs or do I have some misspells here ? Those are not options that can be passed to newfs or used when creating the filesystem. They are options for mount(8) and can be put in /etc/fstab to be used when you are mounting the filesystem. (See the mount(8) and fstab(5) manpages.) 2) How would I separate several options in the installers input screen after pressing G, by komma (,) by semicolon (;) or just by space ( ) ? Assuming that you are still talking about options to newfs, you write the options exactly as you would do on the command line. (See the newfs(8) manpage for available options.) (If you do not have a FreeBSD system available with manpages installed, they can also be found at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi ) I did search the mailing lists up and down and consulted my book from Michael Lucas and googled, but somehow I didnt find the answer. I would appreciate any replies. Best regards Nils Valentin http://www.be-known-online.com -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Passing options to Newfs in the FreeBSD installer
Very nice answer. 2006/4/2, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:24:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello FreeBSD Fans ;-), I have a probably simple question,which kept me busy for several days by now. I have a few years experience with Linux and would like to extend my knowledge now to the BSD*s. Hopefully my question is not too stupid so that somebody can point me into the correct direction. Anyway here we go... During the FreeBSD installation I would like to pass parameters to the programm which creates the filesystem *newfs if I understand that correctly. I would like to pass the following options: nosuid, noexec, userquota groupquota to some partitions. Whatever I do - even when I want to pass only a single option - I get as a error message Invalid argument 1) Are the above options nosuid, noexec, userquota, groupquota valid options to be passed to the installer programme newfs or do I have some misspells here ? Those are not options that can be passed to newfs or used when creating the filesystem. They are options for mount(8) and can be put in /etc/fstab to be used when you are mounting the filesystem. (See the mount(8) and fstab(5) manpages.) 2) How would I separate several options in the installers input screen after pressing G, by komma (,) by semicolon (;) or just by space ( ) ? Assuming that you are still talking about options to newfs, you write the options exactly as you would do on the command line. (See the newfs(8) manpage for available options.) (If you do not have a FreeBSD system available with manpages installed, they can also be found at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi ) I did search the mailing lists up and down and consulted my book from Michael Lucas and googled, but somehow I didnt find the answer. I would appreciate any replies. Best regards Nils Valentin http://www.be-known-online.com -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- jjd ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Passing options to Newfs in the FreeBSD installer
Hi Erik, I just wanted to say thank you for pointing me into the right direction. Turns out, I had a somewhat skewed understanding what newfs is for. I understand now that those options noexec and nosuid are to be passed to the mount command and the quota options must be enabled in the kernel first. Thank you also especially for the online man page link. That defintely helped a lot as my installation always fell (understandably ;-) Best regards Nils Valentin http://www.be-known-online.com Quoting Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:24:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello FreeBSD Fans ;-), I have a probably simple question,which kept me busy for several days by now. I have a few years experience with Linux and would like to extend my knowledge now to the BSD*s. Hopefully my question is not too stupid so that somebody can point me into the correct direction. Anyway here we go... During the FreeBSD installation I would like to pass parameters to the programm which creates the filesystem *newfs if I understand that correctly. I would like to pass the following options: nosuid, noexec, userquota groupquota to some partitions. Whatever I do - even when I want to pass only a single option - I get as a error message Invalid argument 1) Are the above options nosuid, noexec, userquota, groupquota valid options to be passed to the installer programme newfs or do I have some misspells here ? Those are not options that can be passed to newfs or used when creating the filesystem. They are options for mount(8) and can be put in /etc/fstab to be used when you are mounting the filesystem. (See the mount(8) and fstab(5) manpages.) 2) How would I separate several options in the installers input screen after pressing G, by komma (,) by semicolon (;) or just by space ( ) ? Assuming that you are still talking about options to newfs, you write the options exactly as you would do on the command line. (See the newfs(8) manpage for available options.) (If you do not have a FreeBSD system available with manpages installed, they can also be found at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi ) I did search the mailing lists up and down and consulted my book from Michael Lucas and googled, but somehow I didnt find the answer. I would appreciate any replies. Best regards Nils Valentin http://www.be-known-online.com -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
