From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 16:45:38 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 F24EB106564A for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:45:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7EA8FC0A for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:45:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q2FGjUP5002595 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:45:30 GMT (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <4F621CAA.8070009@qeng-ho.org> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:45:30 +0000 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120219 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions References: <4F61A80D.4050103@qeng-ho.org> <20321.55765.596459.468145@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 16:45:39 -0000 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 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. > > 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?