Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Tried UPGRADING, but could not find any suggestions that this was to > be expected. Could also not find any previous suggestions for this. > After which I got complaints that ad0s1a no longer existed. > Al of a sudden it was called ad0a... > In essence not a serious problem if one is a little fluent in FreeBSD, > but could prove a source of a lot of questions, once 8.0 is released. This isn't related to -current changes. The naming scheme of ad0s1a refers to a classic DOS partition table with a FreeBSD slice as DOS partition 0, and the FreeBSD root partition as the first (a) partition inside the slice. ad0a device name stands for a dangerously dedicated disk with no partition table whatsoever; i.e. it's like doing not "fdisk /dev/ad0 ; bsdlabel {params} /dev/ad0s1", but going "bsdlabel /dev/ad0" without creating a DOS-style partition table. In your case it might mean some data corruption within the partition table. What does fdisk /dev/ad0 report? -- Kamigishi Rei KREI-RIPEReceived on Sun Jun 28 2009 - 12:08:51 UTC
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