Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:06:56 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: Rem P Roberti <rem@remdog.net>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Redux Message-ID: <4D59DFC0.7020008@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim7FPQh1O-DBrPyiKNva_g7==S0MtCXVJ1GdSP5@mail.gmail.com> References: <4D59BCF4.2040209@remdog.net> <20110215011220.16606770.freebsd@edvax.de> <4D59C7AD.1070300@comcast.net> <AANLkTim7FPQh1O-DBrPyiKNva_g7==S0MtCXVJ1GdSP5@mail.gmail.com>
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>>>> I need to ask this question again in the hopes that something will come >>>> of it. In the process of going through an update (I finally got that >>>> sorted out) all of my partitions were renamed. Here they are: >>>> >>>> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity >>>> Mounted on >>>> /dev/label/rootfs0 507630 326734 140286 70% >>>> / >>>> devfs 1 1 0 >>>> 100% /dev >>>> /dev/label/var0 1012974 170386 761552 18% >>>> /var >>>> /dev/label/usr0 33292236 9358560 21270298 31% >>>> /usr >>>> linprocfs 4 4 0 >>>> 100% /usr/compat/linux/proc >>>> /dev/md0 789518 16 726342 0% >>>> /tmp >>>> >>>> As you can see, root, which was once /dev/ad0s1a, is now >>>> /dev/label/rootfs0, and /var, which was once /dev/ad0s1d, is now >>>> /dev/label/var0. Along with these changes the /etc/fstab was >>>> automatically modified to allow the boot process to take place. Can >>>> someone give me a heads up as to what is going on here. >>> Seems that you - or something - did make the switch from >>> device names to labels. Maybe your kernel now includes >>> GEOM functionality for work with labels? But I don't know >>> of a process that changes /etc/fstab automatically... >>> >>> You can still use the device names for the /etc/fstab >>> entries, you just need to make sure that you select >>> the correct names (as you described above). Then there >>> should be no problem as labels are optional. >>> >>> >> >> Honestly, I certainly didn't make the change from device names to labels. I >> wouldn't know how to do that, although I gather from what you've said that >> the kernel config file contains that information. I'm not sure, however, >> what you mean when you say that I can still use the device names, as the >> system will not boot unless fstab has in it the entries shown above. > FreeBSD is wonderful, don't get me wrong, > but it is not magical. Partitions don't just > accrue labels and /etc/fstab doesn't edit > itself. > Are you running PCBSD? LOL! No, I'm running FreeBSD 8.1. I know that this all sounds too odd, but I swear that I never messed with renaming the partitions with labels. If you check back a few days you will see that I was having trouble with an update, and that's where all of this happened. > Anyway, if you want to go back to device names > in the /dev/ad0s1[a-g] scheme you can extract > the correct names with: > geom label list > (you might want to pipe it into a pager) > then edit your /etc/fstab accordingly and > reboot. > Although, why bother really? The label names > may come in handy if you have to move the hdd > to another machine to extract the information, > or for various other reasons. To tell the truth, I'm content to leave things as they are, but unfortunately one of the side effects of all this is that I can't figure out how create and entry in the fstab which will again allow me to mount my other hard drive. The former fstab entry for that was: /dev/ad1s1 /c ntfs rw 1 0 But now with labels active I really don't know how to proceed. Rem
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