Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:45:30 +0000 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Moved drives ... Message-ID: <4F621CAA.8070009@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1203150921570.67149@wonkity.com> References: <CABE=bRN3MRBHaNrJrVe4cj4-Y4G-iUuQBbgwVbYEkm4-FS7byw@mail.gmail.com> <CAHHBGkqc2sbFCZUWE5ZeJKoC5DNqqdhsS%2BTcFr4TrQh=saASbQ@mail.gmail.com> <4F61A80D.4050103@qeng-ho.org> <20321.55765.596459.468145@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1203150921570.67149@wonkity.com>
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On 03/15/12 15:25, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Robert Huff wrote: > >> >> 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<i> to /dev/ada<j> 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. > > These are two different types of label. Filesystem labels have always > worked for me. Those are the ones shown in that article. > > The recent problems have been with GPT labels, which recently don't want > to appear in /dev/gpt. Ouch. I've converted completely to GPT disks and labels. Fortunately I stick to RELEASE so I'm not affected. I presume this is some sort of regression in HEAD?
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