Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:25:23 +0000 From: Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> To: delphij@gmail.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE --> partition gone Message-ID: <20091216012523.GA39968@osiris.mauzo.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <a78074950912151642q4922cad8r9fef1aed71a6c941@mail.gmail.com> References: <4B2802AE.9090107@kernel32.de> <200912151720.37709.freebsd@insightbb.com> <4678E8AE-B873-460A-B126-420B9A06B875@mac.com> <20091216000803.GA39686@osiris.mauzo.dyndns.org>
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Quoth Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Are you able to clarify exactly what is no longer working in 8? I've
> > read things here and there about dangerously dedicated disks no longer
> > being supported, but no detail about what exactly had changed. You seem
> > to be implying here that there is only a problem if there are invalid
> > and/or overlapping labels on the disk; elsewhere I have read that disks
> > without an MBR aren't supported at all (I presume the faked-up MBR on a
> > GPT disk counts). If I currently have a working ad2{b,c,d,e}, will they
> > be picked up by 8, or would I have to repartition slightly smaller with
> > a useless MBR slice in front?
>
> My $0.02: what about labelling them, say, tunefs -L on UFS partitions,
> and glabel for swap, then change corresponding entry in fstab. Say:
<snip>
Yes, I've already done that. However, if gpart doesn't pick up the
underlying ad2d partition glabel won't know to look for a label, so the
entry in /dev/ufs won't show up either.
Ben
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