Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:41:13 +0100 From: Arnar Mar Sig <antab@valka.is> To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br@gmail.com>, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com> Subject: Re: GEOM and moving to CURRENT from 7.1 Message-ID: <A6F6E130-41C1-4F60-B2B4-7D645AB9E528@valka.is> In-Reply-To: <496F7347.4060007@andric.com> References: <FC3D3CF7-091B-4ECF-BE38-6C7751C20994@neville-neil.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901112002080.3696@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> <496D0364.2060505@psg.com> <47d0403c0901131335h46e7b151p3768de9a3e2c2027@mail.gmail.com> <EC370904A7B74B93887C79E120CA2835@adnote989> <085BEE07-BAE5-4A45-A14D-9587987FAA5C@mac.com> <496F44FA.1070004@andric.com> <48C1C477-B7BE-43B0-AC57-9DEB7BF9AA88@mac.com> <496F7347.4060007@andric.com>
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On Jan 15, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 2009-01-15 18:00, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >>> Hmm, in my case I can't do so, since I have a "Dangerously >>> Dedicated" >>> FreeBSD MBR partition. >> >> You don't have a DD installation if your root file system >> is mounted on ad0s1a. You have a DD installation if your >> root file system is mounted on ad0a. > > Hmm, strangely enough I have multiple systems which really do use > ad0s1 > while installed DD using sysinstall, and have been using that since > years... > > I have no issues with changing it now, of course, but it's a bit weird > that it seems to have always worked flawlessly. :) I notices about a 1-2 months ago when update to the latest current that the disklabels for one of my disks had changed. I don't remember if I installed 7.x or 8-snapshot (long time ago) but i did use DD mode. The disk label the install wrote to fstab was ad12s1a, while swap on the same disk was ad12b. Now its ad12a, but no harm done so I ignored it. Greets Arnar Mar Sig Valka ehf
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