Trying to mount PC-BSD on Suse 10

[pofadda]

I have installed PC-BSD on a suitable primary partition and am trying to get it to mount on booting SuSE 10.2.

The command:
mount -t ufs <device> <media> -o ufstype=ufs2
works fine. mtab then says:
/dev/sda3 /linux/PC-BSD ufs rw,ufstype=ufs2 0 0
(which is pleasing as it can indeed rw, something unexpected.)

But fstab won't mount it from the line:
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_...-part3 /linux/PC-BSD ufs ufstype=ufs2

in boot.msg I find the lines:
<4> sda3: <bsd:bad subpartition - ignored
<4>bad subpartition - ignored

What is missing from fstab that stops it mounting?

[daark.child]

Does it work with the entry below

/dev/sda3 /linux/PC-BSD ufs rw,ufstype=ufs2 0 0

[pofadda]

Does it work with the entry below

/dev/sda3 /linux/PC-BSD ufs rw,ufstype=ufs2 0 0

Yes it works perfectly, just as expected! Any idea why the Suse default 'by-id' format doesn't work? Is it Suse or a problem with the UFS driver? UFS-in-Linux info on the Web is pretty scanty and rather dated, hence my 'rw' surprise.

Thanks for your help.

[daark.child]

I don't know why it does not work. I am personally not a fan of using the id stuff (I've seen many threads where tinkering with partitions recognised by id caused problems) so I resort to the old unix way of naming devices in /etc/fstab.

[gogalthorp]

For it to work there must be a link in the /dev/disk/by-id/ directory pointing to /dev/sda3 named scsi-SATA_...-part3
Is it there?

I still don't know why we are going to this redirection stuff. Seems like going around the mountain the long way for no apparently good reason