From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 19 16:12:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1ACE1065670 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:12:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f215.google.com (mail-gx0-f215.google.com [209.85.217.215]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835EE8FC0C for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:12:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk7 with SMTP id 7so1615407gxk.14 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:12:54 -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; bh=r5abxrDHj23MyiuajuuyG2pQIxPOl7Z5wsIB23d7RNA=; b=XftlljkebvQqsJanrzGr8MpCpZf8r04QtJMjXAgaSXTjXDg7Spqmk+emIwwiL7NEHz 9RjAZseilbc/ETroB+nbGBUlG64xYS2UUOGyvWCjT9WmigKKKuDyBW60RUHPSvbIQg2i 5oCrAAU9M/3i6l9Cs05jVAXD0eUCm5bP5mnPs= 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; b=b2vMRmcW35hZMCWNYICxZ/Fukyx8RwlWPVrkvRsgrLBA2tnTyuu+TvdtQx+DcCEqnN grC1VSCWzBPyCEw2gE0LuHVH2/uOmtKyKEto43Y4fJ3zSwbWKdSZG6brzociTIcSkLLr 7MWB0U0bgsoqQ5ApME9sW2UPYBlaiCAH7Fm+4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.28.4 with SMTP id b4mr8455641ybb.124.1255968773955; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:12:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4ADC8C9A.4030903@videotron.ca> References: <4ADC6D89.10600@videotron.ca> <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCBA57086@w2003s01.double-l.local> <4ADC772F.3060303@videotron.ca> <6201873e0910190729v12f66335xe93d0c83a0ee7aee@mail.gmail.com> <4ADC794F.3050505@videotron.ca> <6201873e0910190737o1d849953h6761085ba532f8f6@mail.gmail.com> <4ADC7BD3.30301@videotron.ca> <6201873e0910190809h3cd4416bxaaf526008110447a@mail.gmail.com> <4ADC8C9A.4030903@videotron.ca> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:12:53 -0500 Message-ID: <6201873e0910190912w42325e0q541d46bc2a2972fb@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: PJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Johan Hendriks , Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: glabel clarification X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:12:55 -0000 On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:58 AM, PJ wrote: > Actually, I have been trying to clone a disk and then install the disk > in another machine or same clone in several machines. That's why I > thought that once the clone is make it would boot on any machine. This > in presuming that each clone is identical including the fstab file; I > understood that this would allow immediate bootup regardless of what the > disk may be ad4, ad1, ad12 or whatever. This would permit changing the > necessary configurations of samba, network, etc. Now I see that it > doesn't work that way. I can still clone the disk but then just have to > find what disk is the clone. > Are all the systems identical? If so, make sure cabling is identical as well then gmirror clone would work as well. Also my understanding of glabel is different than mentioned above. As long as fstab mounts the glabel location eg /dev/ufs/