From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 12:00:30 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26BEF106566B for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:00:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6A68FC17 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mr16.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.36]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 15 Mar 2012 08:00:23 -0400 Received: from smtp04.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp04.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.104]) by mr16.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 4.3.4-GA) with ESMTP id BQK91451; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:00:22 -0400 Received: from 209-6-86-84.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.86.84]) by smtp04.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 15 Mar 2012 08:00:22 -0400 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <20321.55765.596459.468145@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:00:21 -0400 To: Arthur Chance In-Reply-To: <4F61A80D.4050103@qeng-ho.org> References: <4F61A80D.4050103@qeng-ho.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr16.lnh.mail.rcn.net) Cc: David Walker , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moved drives ... 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: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:00:30 -0000 Arthur Chance writes: > I'll second that remark on labelling filesystems. My life has become > much easier since I did all mine - the 8.2->9.0 disk naming switch from > /dev/ad to /dev/ada had absolutely no effect. Take a look at > Warren Block's excellent page on the subject: > > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/labels.html /Caveat emptor/: following these instructions, I have been unable to get this to work on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Mar 11 08:20:02 EDT 2012 amd64 Specificelly, the drives get labeled, but the infrastructure necessary to mount using those labels does not happen. After talking with Warren, all we can figure out is it isn't just me. Robert Huff