From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 20 05:26:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1650106566C for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:26:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave@jetcafe.org) Received: from nahkohe.jetcafe.org (nahkohe.jetcafe.org [205.147.26.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F3848FC08 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:26:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Envelope-To: Received: from [205.147.26.5] (hokkshideh4.jetcafe.org [205.147.26.5]) by nahkohe.jetcafe.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q6K5QRjw042040 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5008EC03.8000902@jetcafe.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:26:27 -0700 From: Dave Hayes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120612 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org References: <500875C2.1070903@jetcafe.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Geom, MBR, labels, and usb sticks X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:26:28 -0000 On 07/19/12 20:50, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Dave Hayes wrote: >> and still the labels do not show up. > > They won't show in gpart because they are filesystem labels. They will > show in 'tunefs -p' or 'file -s'. Thank you for that. I was able to verify that tunefs -p works. >> I really do want to be able to mount /dev/ufs/foo as the root device, >> but as I understand things if gpart doesn't show the label then the >> glabel subsystem won't set up the proper device file. >> >> What gives here? Am I missing something important? > > There is more than one type of label. glabel(8) has a list that > includes the device directory where the label appears. Right. However if the label is not showing up in /dev/ufs/