Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:51:49 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: xcllnt@mac.com Subject: Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE --> partition gone Message-ID: <200912161251.50660.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <a78074950912151642q4922cad8r9fef1aed71a6c941@mail.gmail.com> References: <4B2802AE.9090107@kernel32.de> <20091216000803.GA39686@osiris.mauzo.dyndns.org> <a78074950912151642q4922cad8r9fef1aed71a6c941@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Xin LI wrote: > My $0.02: what about labelling them, say, tunefs -L on UFS > partitions, and glabel for swap, then change corresponding entry in > fstab. Say: > > - Start into single user > - tunefs -L root / > - reboot into single user <--- reboot required after tuning / > - mount -u /; mount -a > - vi /etc/fstab and change "/dev/ad0a" to "/dev/ufs/root" > - umount -a > - tunefs -L other partitions > - mount -a > - vi /etc/fstab and change the rest > - reboot If you use the UFS ID label instead you don't need to reboot because you don't modify the superblock :) You can find the ID with.. line=`dumpfs 2> /dev/null $1 | head | grep superblock\ location` # dumpfs doesn't print leading 0s echo $line | sed -nEe 's/superblock location.*id.*\[ (.*)(.*)\ ]/printf %0x $((0x\1 << 32 | 0x\2))/p' (in an sh like shell) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLKEQ+5ZPcIHs/zowRAloIAKClIxPMFso1vdD2gHRur2aguelQrwCeKgcp yOQcTGJ357WdGPvy2Bi0Ge0= =xykH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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