2009/7/12 Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current_at_mailing.thruhere.net>: > On Saturday 11 July 2009 06:41:26 Matt Smith wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:23:18 +0400, Kamigishi Rei <spambox_at_haruhiism.net> >> >> wrote: >> > If you check June'09 archives, you'll find out that there already was a >> > question about this, coming from a person with FreeBSD installed on a >> > dangerously dedicated disk. >> > Are you sure you aren't using a DDD (a drive that has no DOS/GPT >> > partition tables, just the bsdlabel)? >> >> Ahhh. I have just found the thread you are referring to in the archives. >> That explains it I think. I do indeed have a dangerously dedicated disk >> because I only run the one O/S on it and never need it to be compatible >> with anything else. So it looks like 7.x did things wrongly and now in 8 >> it's working as designed. > > I do think this is worth mentioning in UPDATING, perhaps with the advice > ("strongly recommended") to label partitions before upgrading so that one is > not depending on device naming conventions in the first place. Using the extant ufsid scheme confessedly functionally equivalent also decrease in anxiety, as fsck clears inodes and I can't tell which partition, cos /dev/ufsid/beefbeef00f00f looks a lot like anything else in hexidecimal: like double the symbols of octal. -- --Received on Sun Jul 12 2009 - 23:42:28 UTC
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