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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