Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 18:22:46 -0700 From: "Jason C. Wells" <jasoncwells@fastmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem Label Ambiguity Message-ID: <7936f7d9-6391-5ced-53d7-5b8d423b2aad@fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5802C836.1060607@gmail.com> References: <c183f0a0-4459-228a-edb8-bcd8d393ca20@fastmail.com> <86pon1dwze.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <5802C836.1060607@gmail.com>
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New question related to this topic. I re-labeled my partitions and my filesystems to use unique labels (volumeN). When I mounted what I thought was a new empty partition, I found old files there. Ack! Even though I had provided new unique labels, my mount was mounting an unknown partition and disk. This behavior persists across a reboot. Some configuration somewhere is hanging on to old labels, or some other behavior that I misunderstand. I'm in a situation now where I cannot identify or trust that any partition is the intended partition to mount. How do I go backward from a label to a special device file? ( a slightly different question than before ) I'll answer my own question, glabel status and the man page for glabel seem to offer some help. Any other pointers are welcome. Regards, Jason C. Wells
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