Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-23 Thread Gareth Brown
PJ wrote: I understood that labeling a disk with glabel would permit the disk to be switched to another system and booting from that disk would not require other manupulations than adjusting network configuration, samba, rc.conf and a few others.. But what if there is already a disk on the syste

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-20 Thread michael
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:57:53 -0400, PJ wrote: Exactly what is happening on my system. That's basically what has been troubling me. I cloned ad12 to ad6 and then wanted to boot from ad6... well, everytime I boot from ad6 the boot is from ad12 because both have identical labe

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-20 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:57:53 -0400, PJ wrote: > Exactly what is happening on my system. That's basically what has been > troubling me. I cloned ad12 to ad6 and then wanted to boot from ad6... > well, everytime I boot from ad6 the boot is from ad12 because both have > identical labels. The only way

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-20 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:12:06 -0400, PJ wrote: > >> this is ad12; ad6 is the same - I guess I hae to get rid of those labels >> in ad6 but am not sure if I need to use glabel to remove them or if just >> editing fstab will do it? >> > > You could indicate if a given disk

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:12:06 -0400, PJ wrote: > this is ad12; ad6 is the same - I guess I hae to get rid of those labels > in ad6 but am not sure if I need to use glabel to remove them or if just > editing fstab will do it? You could indicate if a given disk is your working disk (w) or your backu

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:58:18 -0400, PJ wrote: > Actually, I have been trying to clone a disk and then install the disk > in another machine or same clone in several machines. That's why I > thought that once the clone is make it would boot on any machine. This > in presuming that each clone is ide

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:59:43 +0200, "Johan Hendriks" wrote: > Switching between machines is not what labels are for.(enlighten me if > it is) It CAN. If /etc/fstab content matches the labels of the partitions, it matches them regardless of the disk they are on (da[0123...] or ad[0123...]), so the

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:58 PM, PJ wrote: > Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:12 PM, PJ wrote: > > > > > >> # DeviceMountpointFStypeOptionsDumpPass# > >> /dev/label/swapnoneswapsw00 > >> /dev/label/rootfs/

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:12 PM, PJ wrote: > > >> # DeviceMountpointFStypeOptionsDumpPass# >> /dev/label/swapnoneswapsw00 >> /dev/label/rootfs/ufsrw11 >> /dev/label/backups/back

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:12 PM, PJ wrote: > # DeviceMountpointFStypeOptionsDumpPass# > /dev/label/swapnoneswapsw00 > /dev/label/rootfs/ufsrw11 > /dev/label/backups/backupsufsrw22 > /d

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:58 AM, PJ > wrote: > > Actually, I have been trying to clone a disk and then install the disk > in another machine or same clone in several machines. That's why I > thought that once the clone is make i

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:46 AM, PJ > wrote: > > Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, PJ > > >> wr

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:58 AM, PJ wrote: > Actually, I have been trying to clone a disk and then install the disk > in another machine or same clone in several machines. That's why I > thought that once the clone is make it would boot on any machine. This > in presuming that each clone is iden

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:46 AM, PJ wrote: > Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, PJ > > wrote: > > > > Adam Vande More wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ > > > >

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, PJ > wrote: > > Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ > > >> wr

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, PJ wrote: > >> Adam Vande More wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ > > > wrote: >> > >> > Yes, this is true and that is why I thought that glabel would >> >

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, PJ wrote: > Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ > > wrote: > > > > Yes, this is true and that is why I thought that glabel would > > work; I am > > trying to set up my computers with identical

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ > wrote: > > Yes, this is true and that is why I thought that glabel would > work; I am > trying to set up my computers with identical clones that I can update > with changes on the master

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ > wrote: > > Yes, this is true and that is why I thought that glabel would > work; I am > trying to set up my computers with identical clones that I can update > with changes on the master

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ wrote: > Yes, this is true and that is why I thought that glabel would work; I am > trying to set up my computers with identical clones that I can update > with changes on the master machine from time to time and thus prevent > data loss in case of problems. So

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Johan Hendriks wrote: >> I understood that labeling a disk with glabel would permit the disk to >> be switched to another system and booting from that disk would not >> require other manupulations than adjusting network configuration, >> > samba, > >> rc.conf and a few others.. >> But what

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Johan Hendriks wrote: >> I understood that labeling a disk with glabel would permit the disk to >> be switched to another system and booting from that disk would not >> require other manupulations than adjusting network configuration, >> > samba, > >> rc.conf and a few others.. >> But what

RE: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Johan Hendriks
>I understood that labeling a disk with glabel would permit the disk to >be switched to another system and booting from that disk would not >require other manupulations than adjusting network configuration, samba, >rc.conf and a few others.. >But what if there is already a disk on the system with

glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
I understood that labeling a disk with glabel would permit the disk to be switched to another system and booting from that disk would not require other manupulations than adjusting network configuration, samba, rc.conf and a few others.. But what if there is already a disk on the system with the id