From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 4 09:41:23 2010 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 D49B01065676 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:41:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.157]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D178FC1B for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:41:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so1536260fgg.13 for ; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:41:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=jGVQblqTikJ1aCjLDqIuEGJIHgY4sL1o9bgo0EKkVPk=; b=aeSQ1wK1pDIsnJIZPim5hL+lFF4cn9v8Prk3TkdKzg2/16fsdHbG4L9EMfbEu8O5c0 cx7wFBaaVqyVFwa8CShKZ1a8wZa9BM+5CsJsyQea4Aj2Do/6pDxAGryM+k+0K9vXxeGz l+vCSTSvUAZbPaLgfr2MvgiYj8Jm5SewzWQiQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=CKNG2BdprhY2KbDNa0yCAHgCdld3e536TycdoxeS2eeNa5jSidFFD68rt4xl6rmWEp vi8wGk5wQOkBqx92xEKlT5yz4B/SAk1kL+8HyVNmIrv2ZapEdXRHRWCHx+Sgu/fmSIlh KFTczdELVf7kXmB5jcqBPuK4rp7zJw5p+OWFI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.188.82 with SMTP id o18mr33629hbh.129.1262598079497; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:41:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100104035136.GA64004@edward.lilypie.com> References: <20100104035136.GA64004@edward.lilypie.com> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:41:19 +0000 Message-ID: From: krad To: Tigger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to confirm hard drive ufsid before upgrade? 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: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:41:24 -0000 2010/1/4 Tigger > Hello. I recently upgraded 7 remote servers from FreeBSD 7.2 to 8.0. > During the process, 3 servers had hard drive ufsid issues. Basically > during the reboot between 7.2 to 8.0, the drive ids 'changed'. > > I'm using ufsids in fstab. > > All servers have two SCSI drives, but have all been set-up by different > people that have come from a Linux background. I can only assume they > have used different commands and methods to format the drives. > > I'm assuming this issue is related to GEOM_ changes, however it is not > very clear how to prevent this from happening (I'm sure I'm missing > something). > > I have one more machine to go which is a lot more critical than the > others and do not wish to have this one down for as long as the others > where. It took about 6 hours to get the tech guys at the other end to > get 2 of the boxes back up, the other one was easy to get up, but all > data was 'lost' on one drive and had to be restored from a back-up. > > -Tig > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > One reason why i use the human readable glabels