Peter schreef:
Hello all.I just installed FreeBSD 9.0 RC2 and upgraded to 9.0 RC3. I used the standard GPT disk layout at install. Now i want to set labels for my disk, so that i can swap around disks a little more easy. So reading through the man page it told me to use gpart modify -i -l The layout is as follows: test# gpart status Name Status Components da0p1 OK da0 da0p2 OK da0 da0p3 OK da0 test# gpart list | grep label label: (null) label: (null) label: (null) Now i modified the gpart labels. test# gpart modify -i1 -l bootpart da0 da0p1 modified test# gpart modify -i2 -l rootpart da0 da0p2 modified test# gpart modify -i3 -l swap da0 da0p3 modified Ok all looks fine. Now lets see if i can use my labels test# cd /dev/gpt /dev/gpt: No such file or directory. Well it does not create my labels I did check if the labels where there test# gpart list | grep label label: bootpart label: rootpart label: swap So i rebooted the machine! But after a reboot, still no /dev/gpt. So why is it not creating my labels! Am i missing a step? Thanks for your time. And before i forget, merry christmas to all, and a wonderful 2012. regards, Johan HendriksI was going to say if you mount /dev/da0p? its /dev/gpt/label disappears, and since all the partition are mounted already [/dev/gpt/ is empty], then /dev/gpt is maybe also removed.......but /dev/gpt/bootpart is not mounted and should still show up. When you ran the 'gpart' commands, did you set the sysctl geom debug variable? [sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=17] After the reboot, are the labels still there? [gpart list | grep label] ]Peter[
I placed some other disk in (for the zfs pool) Now i have /dev/gpt/bootpart, but not the labels for swap and / I did not use the sysctl value. And yes the labels are stil in place. test# cd /dev/gpt test# ls -al total 1 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 23 20:02 . dr-xr-xr-x 10 root wheel 512 Dec 23 21:02 .. crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 123 Dec 23 20:02 bootpart test# gpart list | grep label label: bootpart label: rootpart label: swap test# I will try the debugflag option. But it should not be nessacary i guess. thanks regards Johan _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
