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Date:      Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:41:26 +0100
From:      Matt Smith <freebsd@xtaz.co.uk>
To:        Kamigishi Rei <spambox@haruhiism.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Disk devices changed after upgrade to current
Message-ID:  <b2763ae4d9e6985bde0299caffb0676c@xtaz.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4A58A056.3020002@haruhiism.net>
References:  <fdfa5f6e734eaf50cc774efb62bbdba2@xtaz.co.uk> <4A58A056.3020002@haruhiism.net>

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On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:23:18 +0400, Kamigishi Rei <spambox@haruhiism.net>
wrote:
>>   
> If you check June'09 archives, you'll find out that there already was a 
> question about this, coming from a person with FreeBSD installed on a 
> dangerously dedicated disk.
> Are you sure you aren't using a DDD (a drive that has no DOS/GPT 
> partition tables, just the bsdlabel)?

Ahhh. I have just found the thread you are referring to in the archives.
That explains it I think. I do indeed have a dangerously dedicated disk
because I only run the one O/S on it and never need it to be compatible
with anything else. So it looks like 7.x did things wrongly and now in 8
it's working as designed.

Thanks for this.

Matt.



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