Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:45:45 -0400 From: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: glabel clarification Message-ID: <4ADC6D89.10600@videotron.ca>
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I understood that labeling a disk with glabel would permit the disk to be switched to another system and booting from that disk would not require other manupulations than adjusting network configuration, samba, rc.conf and a few others.. But what if there is already a disk on the system with the identical labels in /dev/label/ ? I understood that whatever the actual disk might be (ad4, ad12, ad1...)would be irrelevant? It would appear that the actual booting goes according to the label; so, if there are duplicate labels the boot will not necessarily be from the newly installed disk if there is another disk with duplicate glabel labels? So doing a glabel seems superfluous... What then is the real purpose of glabel, since the boot process seems to need a unique identifier?
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