On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Warren Block <wblock_at_wonkity.com> wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi_at_gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Doug Barton <dougb_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> glabel create <label> /dev/<blah> >>> >>> Just tested that with a kernel from HEAD and a 8.x userland. This does >>> not seem to survive a reboot. >> >> No, "create" makes a temporary label. "label" writes a label to the last >> block of the device. >> > ... which does not seem be doable when the fs is mounted: > > [in single-user, with only / mounted r/w and /dev] > # geom label label root /dev/ad0s1a > geom: Can't store metadata on /dev/ad0s1a: Operation not permitted. As an anti-foot-shooting measure, this is blocked unless the flag sysctl kern.geom.debugflags |= 16 is set > > Unfortunately, I do not have physical access to the machine. I guess > that transition will be a royal PITA for a lot of people. > > Btw, you mentioned "device", I guess you meant "file-system", didn't you ? The label is on the device, using space that is (hopefully) left over after the filesystem's allocation. -Ben KadukReceived on Thu Apr 21 2011 - 00:26:26 UTC
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