From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 11 14:41:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD5A106564A for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:41:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@xtaz.co.uk) Received: from mail.xtaz.co.uk (xtaz.co.uk [87.194.206.163]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 095E08FC0A for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:41:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@xtaz.co.uk) Received: from xtaz.co.uk (tao.xtaz.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by mail.xtaz.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F124B07674; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:41:26 +0100 (BST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:41:26 +0100 From: Matt Smith To: Kamigishi Rei In-Reply-To: <4A58A056.3020002@haruhiism.net> References: <4A58A056.3020002@haruhiism.net> Message-ID: X-Sender: freebsd@xtaz.co.uk User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.2.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk devices changed after upgrade to current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:41:28 -0000 On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:23:18 +0400, Kamigishi Rei wrote: >> > If you check June'09 archives, you'll find out that there already was a > question about this, coming from a person with FreeBSD installed on a > dangerously dedicated disk. > Are you sure you aren't using a DDD (a drive that has no DOS/GPT > partition tables, just the bsdlabel)? Ahhh. I have just found the thread you are referring to in the archives. That explains it I think. I do indeed have a dangerously dedicated disk because I only run the one O/S on it and never need it to be compatible with anything else. So it looks like 7.x did things wrongly and now in 8 it's working as designed. Thanks for this. Matt.