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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Suggestion for install
Date: 3 Oct 1996 16:23:42 GMT
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In article <52rsus$4ga@zip0.zipnet.net>,
	kot@zipnet.net (Mikhail Teterin) writes:
> When user assigns mount-points to partitions, how about showing
> him/her how the chunk was mounted last time on that same screen?
> (For chunks with FreeBSD-type filesystem, of course). Just to
> make partitions easier to identify.

This used to happen with at least some variants of sysv3.  A rw mount
would write the mount point to the label on the partition.

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....