From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 17 23:13:37 2009 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 19B281065697 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:13:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonicy@otenet.gr) Received: from rosebud.otenet.gr (rosebud.otenet.gr [83.235.67.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AD868FC28 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:13:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pulstar.local (athedsl-4468832.home.otenet.gr [94.71.112.80]) by rosebud.otenet.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n9HNDYrI031848; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:13:34 +0300 Message-ID: <4ADA4F9E.5080009@otenet.gr> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:13:34 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <4AD8EB8F.9010900@videotron.ca> <4AD8F651.1000001@otenet.gr> <4AD8FD82.8050306@videotron.ca> <4AD90066.60606@otenet.gr> <4ADA32D2.2020802@videotron.ca> <4ADA49AD.9040304@otenet.gr> <4ADA4DAF.1090700@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4ADA4DAF.1090700@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: PJ , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must 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: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:13:37 -0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> PJ wrote: > >>> Now, does that mean that glabel does not work if there are several >>> disks >>> on the system... it certainly does not say so nor does it adv ertise >>> that this would not work if there are several ATA disks present.. >>> Previously I had also tried a reboot press 4 with exactly the same >>> results.... > >> Aha, as I said above then. >> If you've done this and you are still getting the can't store metadata >> message, >> I am really out of ideas. > > Just a WAG, but > > sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 > > possibly? > > Cheers, > > Matthew > Ha, yes, the "shoot in the foot" sysctl :) Shouldn't be needed though - I was labelling a boot disk about half an hour ago and nothing else than pure 'glabel label' was required. There must be something else that stops it. Maybe running glabel with -v will help the OP (hopefully with a more detailed error message)