From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 28 14:08:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C5E9106567B for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:08:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spambox@haruhiism.net) Received: from fujibayashi.jp (karas.fujibayashi.jp [77.221.159.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9EA98FC18 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:08:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spambox@haruhiism.net) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (ppp91-122-47-189.pppoe.avangarddsl.ru [91.122.47.189]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by fujibayashi.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 40E4778F98; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:51:38 +0400 (MSD) Message-ID: <4A477576.6030701@haruhiism.net> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:51:50 +0400 From: Aisaka Taiga User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willem Jan Withagen References: <4A476C7C.3020605@withagen.nl> In-Reply-To: <4A476C7C.3020605@withagen.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.2-stable upgrade changes disknames X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:08:51 -0000 Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Tried UPGRADING, but could not find any suggestions that this was to > be expected. Could also not find any previous suggestions for this. > After which I got complaints that ad0s1a no longer existed. > Al of a sudden it was called ad0a... > In essence not a serious problem if one is a little fluent in FreeBSD, > but could prove a source of a lot of questions, once 8.0 is released. This isn't related to -current changes. The naming scheme of ad0s1a refers to a classic DOS partition table with a FreeBSD slice as DOS partition 0, and the FreeBSD root partition as the first (a) partition inside the slice. ad0a device name stands for a dangerously dedicated disk with no partition table whatsoever; i.e. it's like doing not "fdisk /dev/ad0 ; bsdlabel {params} /dev/ad0s1", but going "bsdlabel /dev/ad0" without creating a DOS-style partition table. In your case it might mean some data corruption within the partition table. What does fdisk /dev/ad0 report? -- Kamigishi Rei KREI-RIPE