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Date:      Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:21:27 -0700
From:      Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: tunefs -L issue
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:02:10AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
>> Wait a second. =A0What do I have to do, mount single user to find the
>> darn things? =A0They have completely disappeared, not even a
>> 'GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/482b3a7c20b36d8c removed' in dmesg! (thought
>> I was previously seeing that on shutdown, not startup, now neither)
>
> The following command looks also in the old messages files;
>
> =A0 =A0bzgrep 'Label for.*ufsid' /var/log/messages.* | less
>
>> Even in single user mode, root is already mounted, so I'm never going
>> to find the label for it. =A0I'm afraid man geom is just leaving me
>> guessing (see below). =A0geom label doesn't seem to think I have any
>> disks...
>>
>> Handbook:
>>
>> % glabel status
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Name =A0Status =A0Components
>> ufsid/486b6fc38d330916 =A0 =A0 N/A =A0ad4s1d
>> ufsid/486b6fc16926168e =A0 =A0 N/A =A0ad4s1f
>>
>> Local:
>>
>> [steve@fyre /usr/home/steve]$ glabel status
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Name =A0Status =A0Components
>> iso9660/WALL_E =A0 =A0 N/A =A0acd0
>> [steve@fyre /usr/home/steve]$
>>
>
> I don't see anything here either on my system.
>


> Doesn't tunefs -L work? (sorry, can't recall the beginning of this thread=
).

Apparently, but only in single-user mode.  I think my problem is more
one of documentation.  The handbook is rather obtuse on the subject.
The inability to even locate or read the labels on a mounted system is
about as un-POLS as I've come across lately....

Thanks for the help, though.  I booted single-user, mounted a
usb-stick, and piped the output of geom label to a file on the stick.
Not fun.

Only having run FBSD for 4 years or so now, I wasn't aware of any good
sources for this kind of info except dmesg.  I'll be looking into
/var/log/messages more closely in the future.  You don't see it
mentioned too often in reference to noob questions.

Thanks,
Steve



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