Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:35:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Matt Smith <matt@xtaz.co.uk> Cc: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Subject: Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208271416550.49435@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <79cd5f15b21566846e5ef3579f67668b@xtaz.co.uk> References: <2d4dfcb2637f4d0e9671899538b603d9@xtaz.co.uk> <67DFAA78-A9A2-49F9-9C29-CA5653ECE3C0@lassitu.de> <b98001dbe576eafcf4f4500e975680ec@xtaz.co.uk> <20120827172650.7e6a7685@AMD620.ovitrap.com> <c5c51c674a29c136f0d10a3fe936a6a0@xtaz.co.uk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208270750130.46223@wonkity.com> <78f8335e54e04f158609f0382afb8d4d@xtaz.co.uk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208271230360.48366@wonkity.com> <79cd5f15b21566846e5ef3579f67668b@xtaz.co.uk>
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Matt Smith wrote: > On 2012-08-27 19:42, Warren Block wrote: >> No obvious problems jumped out at me. Here are my notes: >> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html >> >> The gpart version is halfway down. I really need to switch that around. > > Oooooh! You're the owner of that site. As it happens those were the exact > instructions that I used to try and figure out how to do it as you are first > in google for "freebsd gpt newfs"! Hah--I'm famous! > It's just a shame that I then decided to use the same method that I had used > before on my old system for the labelling. On my old system I had used MBR > partitioning and so needed to use glabel for labelling the swap and I then > used the same thing for the UFS partition for consistency in the fstab. It > never occurred to me when I was labelling the GPT partitions that I could > have used those directly. "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." > One thing that is still bugging me though is I'm wondering why I had no > problem with this on my old system. That was using a dangerously dedicated > disk with MBR where the root partition was just /dev/ada4a. > It was also using UFS2 with SU+J enabled and I had used glabel in > exactly the same way but on this box it had not done any damage. > Shutdown etc worked perfectly fine. Is there something different with > the way GPT partitions work? In use, GPT partitioning should work just the same. Without recreating it, hard to define the difference that caused the shutdown problem. > Thank you for your help anyway, and your wonkity site, which I also once used > for converting my procmail to maildrop. And thanks also to Erich and Stefan > for your help. When I get some spare time I'll redo the filesystem and hope > that it works. Please post a followup after that.
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