From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 17:52:35 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A232106564A for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:52:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from antab@valka.is) Received: from smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 956658FC0C for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:52:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from antab@valka.is) Received: from dumb.farm.antab.is (farm.antab.is [80.101.60.195]) by smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n0FHfIag035243; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:41:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from antab@valka.is) Message-Id: From: Arnar Mar Sig To: Dimitry Andric In-Reply-To: <496F7347.4060007@andric.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:41:13 +0100 References: <496D0364.2060505@psg.com> <47d0403c0901131335h46e7b151p3768de9a3e2c2027@mail.gmail.com> <085BEE07-BAE5-4A45-A14D-9587987FAA5C@mac.com> <496F44FA.1070004@andric.com> <48C1C477-B7BE-43B0-AC57-9DEB7BF9AA88@mac.com> <496F7347.4060007@andric.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: current@freebsd.org, Luiz Otavio O Souza , Marcel Moolenaar , Ben Kaduk , Randy Bush , George Neville-Neil Subject: Re: GEOM and moving to CURRENT from 7.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:52:35 -0000 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