From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 00:24:16 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3F22106564A for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:24:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from qmta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D455E8FC08 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta23.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.90]) by qmta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 80PA1g0061wfjNsA80QFzE; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:24:15 +0000 Received: from remegius.comcast.net ([67.180.204.190]) by omta23.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 80QD1g00N46zqiB8j0QEBK; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:24:15 +0000 Message-ID: <4D59C7AD.1070300@comcast.net> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:24:13 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110131 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon References: <4D59BCF4.2040209@remdog.net> <20110215011220.16606770.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20110215011220.16606770.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Rem P Roberti , FreeBSD Subject: Re: Redux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:24:16 -0000 > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:38:28 -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: >> I need to ask this question again in the hopes that something will come >> of it. In the process of going through an update (I finally got that >> sorted out) all of my partitions were renamed. Here they are: >> >> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity >> Mounted on >> /dev/label/rootfs0 507630 326734 140286 70% >> / >> devfs 1 1 0 >> 100% /dev >> /dev/label/var0 1012974 170386 761552 18% >> /var >> /dev/label/usr0 33292236 9358560 21270298 31% >> /usr >> linprocfs 4 4 0 >> 100% /usr/compat/linux/proc >> /dev/md0 789518 16 726342 0% >> /tmp >> >> As you can see, root, which was once /dev/ad0s1a, is now >> /dev/label/rootfs0, and /var, which was once /dev/ad0s1d, is now >> /dev/label/var0. Along with these changes the /etc/fstab was >> automatically modified to allow the boot process to take place. Can >> someone give me a heads up as to what is going on here. > Seems that you - or something - did make the switch from > device names to labels. Maybe your kernel now includes > GEOM functionality for work with labels? But I don't know > of a process that changes /etc/fstab automatically... > > You can still use the device names for the /etc/fstab > entries, you just need to make sure that you select > the correct names (as you described above). Then there > should be no problem as labels are optional. > > Honestly, I certainly didn't make the change from device names to labels. I wouldn't know how to do that, although I gather from what you've said that the kernel config file contains that information. I'm not sure, however, what you mean when you say that I can still use the device names, as the system will not boot unless fstab has in it the entries shown above. Rem