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Subject: Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must
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Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> PJ wrote:
>   
>> Manolis, my state of mind is quite clear... and I'm coping with
>> everything quite allright... I'm not about to get mad at anyone or
>> anything...
>> but tell me, honestly, when you see the stuff I have described above?
>> Woldn't that confuse anyone in their right mind?
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> I am sorry, but there is something here, either some mistake on your
> part or some other weird problem on your system I can not think of.
>
> I don't seem to remember glabel ever failing to store metadata, unless
> 1) The device is non-existing 2) The device is mounted.
> As a matter of fact, I did the glabel stuff on a machine a few hours
> ago. This was already fully installed, I rebooted single user and was
> done in less than 2 minutes.
> And yes, if you get a metadata error, it means nothing was done so you
> are *not* to go and change fstab!
>
> Could you  please send us /etc/fstab and the results of ls /dev/ad*
>
>
> it'll have to be later - tomorrow or monday...
>   
I'm fighting with a stubborn disk from a broken raid0 array that
prevents the system from booting.... another load or horsemanure!