Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 21:00:21 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing UFS label from root Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209092058390.1143@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tp4TbbnVuGzPxCNgJXfb5bo2cyQ4sDDijrsD9KYi9esQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN6yY1vRdXMZVXNzofjjCzjotB1hALAPXMvB1MgV9duAf81LWg@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209091934230.59524@wonkity.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209091948480.59524@wonkity.com> <CAN6yY1tp4TbbnVuGzPxCNgJXfb5bo2cyQ4sDDijrsD9KYi9esQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >> On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Warren Block wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Kevin Oberman wrote: >>> >>>> I added a label to my root fs some time ago. I really prefer the gpt >>>> label and I have added it, but I can't figure out how to remove the >>>> ufs label. >>>> >>>> I boot single user and run 'tunefs -L "" /dev/ada1p2' but I get an >>>> "unable to write superblock" error. This is before mounting the drive >>>> RW, but it is, of course, mounted RO. >>> >>> >>> This worked in a VM when I tested it just now. Maybe running fsck on that >>> filesystem first will help. > > Already tried that. > > I know I was able to label it originally, so it does seem like > something must have changed, but I don't know what. I did use gpart to > expand my /usr partition and then used growfs to expand the FS, but I > did nothing to root and I was able to remove the labels on all of the > other partitions. Might there be a duplicate filesystem label of "root" on ada0 or another disk?
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