From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 7 12:54:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF3871065677 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:54:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from valentin.bud@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f221.google.com (mail-bw0-f221.google.com [209.85.218.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 234638FC14 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:54:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from valentin.bud@gmail.com) Received: by bwz21 with SMTP id 21so1025745bwz.43 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:54:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=wUKEla3fTjymxidvU5l84jcSXxyozP4lhAq1HpwW4y8=; b=t9g1foDoEc70TJXFOr4F4BHWNmqZFXYPoSaAcb9WGyzYafEDeuQiZ9Uab60hiH5gTb gUyShIX7GMyDbtkrvbzi/UQjUCs9y5IbiZ4OScClF/lTkCUozotX2I1KMcHWBj0ToqAi amiHrs/TDF7a8izh5Uf3AUfcGyf6K8z5fgI/k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=fPhCQ2Wb7ocuZB8EGLtlhXBTjiAr8CXqoVtE+Hnz8uSHk4dZZ5s3x3fEMAQNrNh8OZ F3mQUKpDjHNTGg2hzpABv9oJ/uFuplJP8PNEaJ12psTA64ykeUozads08aTmJc5FsXJu vYKJncus4gKdKhqlS+Pxpxrr4TmV27E/Z7hsM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.123.210 with SMTP id q18mr2705873far.60.1246971264310; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:54:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Valentin Bud Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:54:04 +0300 Message-ID: <139b44430907070554i54e29c4dj6bd633f16c9eba28@mail.gmail.com> To: Daniel Underwood Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 questions: GEOM_LABEL and partition naming X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:54:27 -0000 On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Good morning, folks! (At least, it's morning on the east coast of USA) > > > QUESTION 1: Would someone please explain the /var/run/dmesg.boot excerpt > below? > > Note: I have glanced at both of the following links, but at the > moment, I do not have time to dig into the documentation and learn all > about this. I'm hoping to get enough knowledge to understand what's > going on with this excerpt, and then later invest time in deeper > learning. > > > > [BEGIN excerpt from dmesg.boot] > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0s1a is ufsid/4a0047d615cb402f. > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0s1d is ufsid/4a0047d94598831f. > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0s1e is ufsid/4a0047d8017e2a4d. > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0s1f is ufsid/4a0047d82cde044f. > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0s1g is ufsid/4a0047d6b40e9fa1. > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a0047d615cb402f removed. > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0s1a is ufsid/4a0047d615cb402f. > GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a0047d6b40e9fa1 removed. > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0s1g is ufsid/4a0047d6b40e9fa1. > GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a0047d8017e2a4d removed. > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0s1e is ufsid/4a0047d8017e2a4d. > GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a0047d82cde044f removed. > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0s1f is ufsid/4a0047d82cde044f. > GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a0047d94598831f removed. > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0s1d is ufsid/4a0047d94598831f. > GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a0047d615cb402f removed. > GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a0047d6b40e9fa1 removed. > GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a0047d8017e2a4d removed. > GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a0047d82cde044f removed. > GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a0047d94598831f removed. > [END excerpt from dmesg.boot] This are labels: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-glabel.html. > > > More possibly relevant information: > > [BEGIN /etc/fstab] > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump > Pass# > /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/ad0s1g /home ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/ad0s1e /tmp ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/ad0s1d /var ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > linproc /usr/compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 > [END /etc/fstab] > > [BEGIN output of df command] > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 756750 162710 533500 23% / > devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev > /dev/ad0s1g 23364076 112878 21382072 1% /home > /dev/ad0s1e 756750 862 695348 0% /tmp > /dev/ad0s1f 10154158 5275158 4066668 56% /usr > /dev/ad0s1d 756750 163790 532420 24% /var > linprocfs 4 4 0 100% /usr/compat/linux/proc > [END output of df command] > > > QUESTION 2: I'm suprised that the device names (from the df output > above) do not include "ad0s1b" and "ad0s1c". I thought the naming > should follow the model of "ad0s1%" where "%" begins at "a" and > continues in alphabetical order for each partition on that device. > What am I missing? Partition b is for swap and c represents the entire slice. They will not appear in df output. > > > > TIA, > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- network warrior since 2005