CURRENT sees only /dev/ad2s1a, but not /dev/ad3s1a

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 4/2/09, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
> El día Friday, March 27, 2009 a las 05:52:40PM +0100, Paul B. Mahol
> escribió:
>
>> On 3/27/09, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > When I boot my EeePC from USB key (/dev/da0s1a) -CURRENT it sees the two
>> > SSD
>> > only
>> > as
>> >
>> > $ ls -l /dev/ad*
>> > /dev/ad2
>> > /dev/ad2s1
>> > /dev/ad2s1a
>> > /dev/ad3
>> > /dev/ad3a
>> >
>> > I can mount /dev/ad2s1a but ofc not /dev/ad3s1a;
>> >
>> > when I'm booting the RELENG_7 from /dev/ad2s1a itself it looks like
>> > this:
>> >
>> > $ mount
>> > /dev/ad2s1a on / (ufs, local, noatime)
>> > /dev/ad3s1a on /usr/home (ufs, local, noatime)
>>
>> CURRENT have replaced geom_bsd with geom_part_bsd
>> and that can cause various problems, search current archives for more
>> info.
>
> When I will update the EeePC from USB key (/dev/da0s1a) to CURRENT I
> will install into /dev/ad2s1a (with make installworld/installkernel ...)
> and I want to keep the partition /dev/ad3s1a as it is; would it be
> enough to just do:
>
> # bsdlabel -w ad3s1 auto
>
> from CURRENT booted?

When you do that, make backups anyway.

I dont use bsdlabel/fdisk/sade any more, I use gpart(8) instead. I
actually wiped completely old crappy parttion table and replaced it
with gpart one, and now I'm using more than 8 labels.

-- 
Paul