From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 13 05:43:28 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 D45821065674 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:43:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A7CD8FC0C for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:43:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from smoochies.rachie.is-a-geek.net (mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9D167E818; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:43:27 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:43:26 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.2.4; i386; ; ) References: <20090713023459.GA1870@tafi.alm.flutnet.org> In-Reply-To: <20090713023459.GA1870@tafi.alm.flutnet.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907122143.26830.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Alson van der Meulen 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 05:43:29 -0000 On Sunday 12 July 2009 18:34:59 Alson van der Meulen wrote: > * illoai@gmail.com [2009-07-13 03:19]: > > 2009/7/12 Mel Flynn : > > > 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. > Actually, I recently upgraded from -stable to -current, and the fact > that I did use ufsids in -stable caused problems during the upgrade, > since they don't appear to work for me in -current: Nowhere up there I'm saying to use ufsid's: % uname -sr FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT % df Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/label/current.root 989M 651M 259M 72% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/label/current.var 9.7G 4.9G 4.0G 55% /var /dev/label/current.usr 9.7G 5.8G 3.1G 65% /usr /dev/label/current.local 15G 10G 3.6G 74% /usr/local /dev/label/home 70G 56G 8.9G 86% /home I made these labels under 7.1-STABLE then cross-installed on the second slice. glabel is in GENERIC for a while now (7.1-RELEASE?), so it's something you can use without problems and they even work on livefs cd's. -- Mel