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Date:      Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:03:23 +0300
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: GEOM label clarification
Message-ID:  <4AD8FBBB.5090507@otenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20091017005844.77c28cc1.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <4AD8B65C.9020603@videotron.ca> <4AD8B9A9.7030306@otenet.gr>	<4AD8C62C.2060009@videotron.ca> <4AD8C7B9.8030108@otenet.gr>	<4AD8D387.3060101@videotron.ca> <4AD8E909.2040804@otenet.gr> <20091017005844.77c28cc1.freebsd@edvax.de>

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Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:43:37 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> wrote:
>   
>> Is this your normal '/' filesystem, and is it mounted?
>> If it is reboot your system and select 'single user mode' from the
>> loader.menu
>> Then use glabel in the single user mode prompt.
>> This will not work if you just 'shutdown now', you have to reboot into
>> single user mode.
>>     
>
> Isn't it sufficient to unmount any partitions and keep /
> in -o ro mode, and then perform the glabel command, which
> is obviously best done in single user mode?
>
>   

I had variable results on a few systems and feel it is safest to perform
a clean single user mode boot.



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