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Date:      Mon, 5 Jan 2015 16:50:29 -0600
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, Chris H <chrish@ultimatedns.net>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: I need some swap partion help on new 10.1 install
Message-ID:  <20150105225028.GC57206@rancor.immure.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1501041836540.33242@wonkity.com>
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On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 06:37:18PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jan 2015, Michael Butler wrote:
> 
> > On 01/03/15 19:35, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >
> > [ .. snip .. ]
> >
> >> As per an earlier suggestion, did you put:
> >>  kern.geom.label.gpt.enable=0
> >> into /boot/loader.conf? If so, that's why you lack a /dev/gpt label. This
> >> is usually a "friendlier" string than the diskid, but both work equally
> >> well.
> >
> > bsdinstall does that on its own - you have to manually
> > remove/comment/set to "1" after installation :-(
> 
> gpt, or gptid?  The first would be a terrible regression, the second, 
> not so much.

The more I read of this thread the more confused I get. What should I have in
/boot/loader.conf to get the old behavior with more traditional device names?

Also, if bsdinstall doesn't do this for me automatically, why did it put
/dev/ada0p2 in the fstab for swap?

Bob

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