On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:35:08AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > Roland Smith <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:46:57PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: > >> 2010/5/11 Roland Smith <[email protected]>: > >> > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:08:40PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: > >> >> Thanks for all your answers. > >> >> > >> >> mark...@melon ~ $ sudo tunefs -p /dev/ad0s1f > >> > <snip> > >> >> tunefs: volume label: (-L) usr > >> >> > >> >> It's weird, as you can see the label is set but nothing in /dev/label, > >> >> /dev/ufs, /dev/vol ! > >> > > >> > >> Aaah ! So I understand everything now ! Is this written somewhere ? > > > > See §19.6 (Labeling Disk Devices) in the FreeBSD Handbook. However, it is > > not mentioned > > there that labels are removed when the partition is mounted. Maybe that > > behavior is recent? > > 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 difference? > 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 -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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