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Date:      Wed, 12 May 2010 19:41:23 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: glabel nor tunefs save my labels
Message-ID:  <20100512174123.GA15087@slackbox.erewhon.net>
In-Reply-To: <87pr11axj7.fsf@cjlinux.localnet>
References:  <20100510202618.GA1748@Melon.malikania.fr> <hsa1v9$qht$1@dough.gmane.org> <AANLkTikyZoDXcE2DNrnDq8PVq2jV_Olzcrwu3leUTE9J@mail.gmail.com> <20100511174006.GA7980@slackbox.erewhon.net> <AANLkTimjcmPbgLoqqL-bHTxuBalXtqKcxITBAvdLdYb7@mail.gmail.com> <20100511181202.GA20091@slackbox.erewhon.net> <87pr11axj7.fsf@cjlinux.localnet>

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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:35:08AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
> Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> writes:
>=20
> > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:46:57PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
> >> 2010/5/11 Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>:
> >> > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:08:40PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
> >> >> Thanks for all your answers.
> >> >>
> >> >> markand@Melon ~ $ sudo tunefs -p /dev/ad0s1f
> >> > <snip>
> >> >> tunefs: volume label: (-L) =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 usr
> >> >>
> >> >> It's weird, as you can see the label is set but nothing in /dev/lab=
el,
> >> >> /dev/ufs, /dev/vol !
> >> >
> >>=20
> >> Aaah ! So I understand everything now ! Is this written somewhere ?
> >
> > See =A719.6 (Labeling Disk Devices) in the FreeBSD Handbook. However, i=
t is not mentioned
> > there that labels are removed when the partition is mounted. Maybe that
> > behavior is recent?
>=20
> I am not the original poster, but I tried again and I now am mostly
> using labels and the labels are still showing in /dev/ufs/.  I didn't
> have labels showing in /dev/ufs, but I changed fstab to what they
> should be and rebooted.  The system came up using the labels and they
> are showing in /dev/ufs/ and using 'glabel status'.

When I did my testing, I did not reboot the system. Maybe that is the diffe=
rence?

> I say mostly because the /usr partition isn't recognized for some
> reason, even though dumpfs and tunefs show the label.  That label is
> also not shown in /dev/ufs or using 'glabel status'.  That made the
> reboot a little tricky since I had to manually mount /usr in order to
> get an editor to edit fstab to continue the boot.

That is odd indeed. Maybe a misspelling in the label? Anything in dmesg or
/var/log/messages.

Roland
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