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Subject: Re: glabel clarification
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Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:58 AM, PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca
> <mailto:af.gourmet@videotron.ca>> 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/<label> it should
> be portable across systems since that info is stored as meta data on
> the drive.
>
> What does your fstab look like?
# Device        Mountpoint    FStype    Options        Dump    Pass#
/dev/label/swap        none        swap    sw        0    0
/dev/label/rootfs    /        ufs    rw        1    1
/dev/label/backups    /backups    ufs    rw        2    2
/dev/label/home        /home        ufs    rw        2    2
/dev/label/tmp        /tmp        ufs    rw        2    2
/dev/label/usr        /usr        ufs    rw        2    2
/dev/label/var        /var        ufs    rw        2    2
/dev/acd0        /cdrom        cd9660    ro,noauto    0    0
linproc  /usr/compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0

this is ad12; ad6 is the same - I guess I hae to get rid of those labels
in ad6 but am not sure if I need to use glabel to remove them or if just
editing fstab will do it?