Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 11:50:29 -0400 From: Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diskid documentation Message-ID: <538C9D45.6090109@pix.net> In-Reply-To: <CAFMmRNyL=y14h6Ov0CDgXovt0zN9VuK93vYQL80Syab2CkkoPQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFMmRNyL=y14h6Ov0CDgXovt0zN9VuK93vYQL80Syab2CkkoPQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Allan Jude <allanjude at freebsd.org> wrote: >> It also tends to sometimes hide the gpt label provider on me (not sure >> in which cases it does this, but it is annoying) > > This happens when something (e.g. zfs) happens to open the diskid > provider instead of the gpt label. For me this ended up being a bit > more than annoying; my swap was mounted in /etc/fstab via a gpt label > so I silently lost my swap when I did an upgrade. I have seen this too, starting from a fresh install. The install process for stable/10 writes a /dev/gpt style label into /etc/fstab for the swap space, and that never gets used, because the /dev/diskid/xxxx stuff appears to take precedence. I put the following into /boot/loader.conf to make the system more sane: kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable=0 -Kurt
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