Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:12:06 -0400 From: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: Johan Hendriks <Johan@double-l.nl>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: glabel clarification Message-ID: <4ADC9DE6.6020900@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <6201873e0910190912w42325e0q541d46bc2a2972fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ADC6D89.10600@videotron.ca> <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCBA57086@w2003s01.double-l.local> <4ADC772F.3060303@videotron.ca> <6201873e0910190729v12f66335xe93d0c83a0ee7aee@mail.gmail.com> <4ADC794F.3050505@videotron.ca> <6201873e0910190737o1d849953h6761085ba532f8f6@mail.gmail.com> <4ADC7BD3.30301@videotron.ca> <6201873e0910190809h3cd4416bxaaf526008110447a@mail.gmail.com> <4ADC8C9A.4030903@videotron.ca> <6201873e0910190912w42325e0q541d46bc2a2972fb@mail.gmail.com>
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Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:58 AM, PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca > <mailto:af.gourmet@videotron.ca>> wrote: > > Actually, I have been trying to clone a disk and then install the disk > in another machine or same clone in several machines. That's why I > thought that once the clone is make it would boot on any machine. This > in presuming that each clone is identical including the fstab file; I > understood that this would allow immediate bootup regardless of > what the > disk may be ad4, ad1, ad12 or whatever. This would permit changing the > necessary configurations of samba, network, etc. Now I see that it > doesn't work that way. I can still clone the disk but then just > have to > find what disk is the clone. > > > Are all the systems identical?� If so, make sure cabling is identical > as well then gmirror clone would work as well. > > Also my understanding of glabel is different than mentioned above.� As > long as fstab mounts the glabel location eg /dev/ufs/<label> it should > be portable across systems since that info is stored as meta data on > the drive. > > What does your fstab look like? # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/label/swap none swap sw 0 0 /dev/label/rootfs / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/label/backups /backups ufs rw 2 2 /dev/label/home /home ufs rw 2 2 /dev/label/tmp /tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/label/usr /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/label/var /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 linproc /usr/compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 this is ad12; ad6 is the same - I guess I hae to get rid of those labels in ad6 but am not sure if I need to use glabel to remove them or if just editing fstab will do it?
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