Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:06:14 +0100 From: Matt Smith <matt@xtaz.co.uk> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Subject: Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown Message-ID: <79cd5f15b21566846e5ef3579f67668b@xtaz.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208271230360.48366@wonkity.com> References: <2d4dfcb2637f4d0e9671899538b603d9@xtaz.co.uk> <67DFAA78-A9A2-49F9-9C29-CA5653ECE3C0@lassitu.de> <b98001dbe576eafcf4f4500e975680ec@xtaz.co.uk> <20120827172650.7e6a7685@AMD620.ovitrap.com> <c5c51c674a29c136f0d10a3fe936a6a0@xtaz.co.uk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208270750130.46223@wonkity.com> <78f8335e54e04f158609f0382afb8d4d@xtaz.co.uk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208271230360.48366@wonkity.com>
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On 2012-08-27 19:42, Warren Block wrote: > No obvious problems jumped out at me. Here are my notes: > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html > > The gpart version is halfway down. I really need to switch that > around. Oooooh! You're the owner of that site. As it happens those were the exact instructions that I used to try and figure out how to do it as you are first in google for "freebsd gpt newfs"! It's just a shame that I then decided to use the same method that I had used before on my old system for the labelling. On my old system I had used MBR partitioning and so needed to use glabel for labelling the swap and I then used the same thing for the UFS partition for consistency in the fstab. It never occurred to me when I was labelling the GPT partitions that I could have used those directly. One thing that is still bugging me though is I'm wondering why I had no problem with this on my old system. That was using a dangerously dedicated disk with MBR where the root partition was just /dev/ada4a. It was also using UFS2 with SU+J enabled and I had used glabel in exactly the same way but on this box it had not done any damage. Shutdown etc worked perfectly fine. Is there something different with the way GPT partitions work? Thank you for your help anyway, and your wonkity site, which I also once used for converting my procmail to maildrop. And thanks also to Erich and Stefan for your help. When I get some spare time I'll redo the filesystem and hope that it works. Matt.
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