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Subject: Re: Disabling geom_journal
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On 13/12/2011 19:34, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> On 12/13/2011 5:59 PM, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>          I'm sure I have seen this come up before but a google doesnt
>> help. I am trying to disable gjournal on a disk so i can move to suj as
>> part of moving on to the 9.x series, I have umounted the FS but when i
>> try to stop the journal it automatically starts it on the gtpid of the
>> device and if i stop that it goes back to the original device name.
>> <snip>
> You don't have to reboot, just set kern.geom.label.gptid.enable to zero,
> gjournal stop ada1p2, gjournal clear ada1p2 and re-enable gptid labels.
>
> HTH, Nikos
Thanks Nikos, I assumed it was a boot time only option for some reason.
That worked a treat.

Vince