From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 4 02:34:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B474106566B for ; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 02:34:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f218.google.com (mail-ew0-f218.google.com [209.85.219.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E4D48FC0A for ; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 02:34:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy18 with SMTP id 18so182395ewy.43 for ; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:34:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vEN8/MxlP1alR0WC3u40PKa4g/F40MoM0/R9uVRedKQ=; b=T/7d6BKW4uizcrQETvDDRsziRvM+mTSJqDMqr5Jsk81Gjo5mOf5OHBRoaTbEaZaXD7 sy1JTeNN4S5MPH0RUtNJz6OUcpZxpAufo0EilPTnSUmwAsSqn00ouViMwj4sjN27GQTB d+z3XaV/kc7jvtHeBsVyPw2ChBogKlRnYpwnc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CwC2tkYfgxrbcp1SrMNJu7bLUQcGOxTbdwKsb1wgfhHJjwxIAoWRTysmIfEmApeRgR PZY6tl705EA/i+uL2g3hbEAwCAdHbBpgVLvU1x8TVBhMF1vSc2nSBQ9RhnVFm3l5wg4L SWJAfOVpM4VyC8jU46/JMceq6jj50ynwyjw3U= Received: by 10.213.45.144 with SMTP id e16mr906351ebf.99.1257302052593; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:34:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm804424eyd.6.2009.11.03.18.34.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:34:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 02:34:07 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091104023407.1fb2983a@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: References: <2cd283d1fad03837950ef165cf75756c@prodigy.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Salvage files from harddrive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:34:14 -0000 On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 20:50:39 -0400 jhell wrote: > If you can mount this disk in single user mode your best bet to be > safe is just glabel it to something else that your second system is > not before you take the disk out of the machine. > > Even though I don't think it should/would be a problem I can not > speak of a authoritative nature on this subject because I have not > had to test such cases. Personally, I don't think this practise of labelling partitions with names like var makes any sense. fstab exists to keep track of what devices map to which mount points, the point of glabel is to give those devices unique names that are independent of where and when they are detected. I think people get the idea that if they use labels like var they'll never need to edit fstab again. The benefit of that is negligible, it's much easier and less confusing to make minor changes to fstab when you copy it to a new disk than it is to shuffle labels around.