From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 12 14:24:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1233) id A1E661065672; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:24:13 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:24:13 +0000 From: Alexander Best To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101012142413.GA17042@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: partition types 'freebsd-boot' and (g/ufs)labels 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: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:24:13 -0000 hi there, glabel seems to ignore IDs, if there are proper labels available. e.g. if a partition has a glabel or a ufs label the gptid or ufsid won't get displayed in 'glabel status'. however for partitions of the type 'freebsd-boot' this doesn't seem to be the case: Name Status Components label/boot N/A ada0p1 gptid/e52df583-e446-11de-bb92-000fb58207c8 N/A ada0p1 label/swap N/A ada0p2 ufs/rootfs N/A ada0p3 label/swapfs N/A ada1p1 ufs/varfs N/A ada1p2 ufs/usrfs N/A ada1p3 as you can see ada0p1 has a proper glabel in place, still in addition to that 'glabel status' shows its gptid. is this really necessary? cheers. alex -- a13x