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Date:      Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:45:28 -0200
From:      Eduardo Meyer <dudu.meyer@gmail.com>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
Cc:        "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>, stable@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: switching bsdlabel's label
Message-ID:  <d3ea75b30901210445l70d48631r496d9f45db667be0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090120184216.GA57318@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
References:  <d3ea75b30901200724o4bc9b515y71733fcb2f5808f9@mail.gmail.com> <20090120161355.GA28525@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <d3ea75b30901200936n15ae0b03m4c48ba55f3728d44@mail.gmail.com> <20090120184216.GA57318@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>

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On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:36:34PM -0200, Eduardo Meyer wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Patrick M. Hausen <hausen@punkt.de> wro=
te:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:24:27PM -0200, Eduardo Meyer wrote:
>> >> I have a certain disk where da0s1a and da0s1d are inverted. By some
>> >> reason someone labelled root as 'd' and home as 'a'.
>> >>
>> >> Can I just
>> >>
>> >> bsdlabel -n da0s1 > savedabel.txt
>> >>
>> >> Edit savedlabel.txt, switch and restore? (bsdlabel -R da0s1 savedlabe=
l)
>> >
>> > Why not simply use bsdlabel -e da0s1?
>>
>> Because I didnt know about that? ;-)
>>
>> Thank you for the hint.
>>
>> However I still have the same doubt. Since basically its the same
>> task, Is it safe do relabel this way?
>
> Hmmm.  Is there stuff written on the disk.  Is root stuff really written
> on da0s1d and /home stuff really written on da0s1a?   Does the system boo=
t
> from it OK?
>
> Or is it just that the mounts are switched.
> The mount points are not written in to the label.   That comes after
> booting.   If it boots, I wonder if it really is switched on the
> partitions or if it is just that the partitions are mounted backwards
> (probably due to editing /etc/fstab incorrectly).
>
> ////jerry

Hello Patrick, thanks again. Yes, label is switched. Yes there really
are stuff on the partitions. No, I dont boot from da0s1d. It is a disk
for migration. But the one who partitioned was fooled by Sysinstall
which creates the first label on extra disks as 'd' and the last from
the allowed 7 as 'a'. Therefore this server is still booting on the
original disk (ad6s1a) and everything else is mounted in the new one
(da0s1), everything but root.

>
>
>
>
>>
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> > Patrick
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>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>> Eduardo Meyer
>> pessoal: dudu.meyer@gmail.com
>> profissional: ddm.farmaciap@saude.gov.br
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Eduardo Meyer
pessoal: dudu.meyer@gmail.com
profissional: ddm.farmaciap@saude.gov.br



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