From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 13 01:42:28 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 F0E8C1065758 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:42:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f172.google.com (mail-vw0-f172.google.com [209.85.212.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A404D8FC17 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:42:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by vwj2 with SMTP id 2so1652104vwj.3 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:42:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Wc8ixLDVrIzrMtv0+28th+xTJQvr0UkhnnT4x8CR/4s=; b=DjTeUO1A/EnFJNShxVxhT9Wff29sPC2ixvmR6ye8aW3FI0CAnB0clhPvWL1BmE/jtK +d1JBsOr7wV+45N+5MN27h3QmFlGrNV+bqXRV6KFq1hkPdz6bNNKUdiFg6HXbbuEL3xh tlabi9zI32AyMip1RT8R/UvMlyDGToJ5i7qjg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=xSfc+DIHcG+XbZHaHkg3U68w++6gNL1mwMStRcWrCTypmO7jWUn+Wxara0c95WkvCz s/UkookA/1/PrMcpseZ89LdA5RaZ/268Sod/77mVmvIqDq8VpkUHQPA7TC2zF+MIZEFD v3G7gwwKw3y14p90C6FMDudFXE8v/oWmovB0k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.77.75 with SMTP id f11mr6332133vck.85.1247447946478; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:19:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200907120824.02622.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <4A58A056.3020002@haruhiism.net> <200907120824.02622.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:19:06 -0400 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: Mel Flynn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:42:29 -0000 2009/7/12 Mel Flynn : > On Saturday 11 July 2009 06:41:26 Matt Smith wrote: >> 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. > > I do think this is worth mentioning in UPDATING, perhaps with the advice > ("strongly recommended") to label partitions before upgrading so that one is > not depending on device naming conventions in the first place. Using the extant ufsid scheme confessedly functionally equivalent also decrease in anxiety, as fsck clears inodes and I can't tell which partition, cos /dev/ufsid/beefbeef00f00f looks a lot like anything else in hexidecimal: like double the symbols of octal. -- --