From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 16 01:25:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D97106566B for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:25:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ben@morrow.me.uk) Received: from relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net (relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net [212.159.7.100]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 532348FC23 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:25:27 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuwEAG7GJ0vUOFPl/2dsb2JhbACBS9VNhCsE Received: from plesk-mail01.plus.net ([212.56.83.229]) by relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 16 Dec 2009 01:25:24 +0000 Received: (qmail 28634 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2009 01:25:24 +0000 Received: from host86-146-192-188.range86-146.btcentralplus.com (HELO osiris.mauzo.dyndns.org) (86.146.192.188) by plesk-mail01.plus.net with SMTP; 16 Dec 2009 01:25:24 +0000 Received: (qmail 39978 invoked by uid 1001); 16 Dec 2009 01:25:23 -0000 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:25:23 +0000 From: Ben Morrow To: delphij@gmail.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091216012523.GA39968@osiris.mauzo.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: delphij@gmail.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4B2802AE.9090107@kernel32.de> <200912151720.37709.freebsd@insightbb.com> <4678E8AE-B873-460A-B126-420B9A06B875@mac.com> <20091216000803.GA39686@osiris.mauzo.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.stable Organization: Who, me? User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: Subject: Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE --> partition gone X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:25:27 -0000 Quoth Xin LI : > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Ben Morrow 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: 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