glabel nor tunefs save my labels

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:46:57PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
> 2010/5/11 Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl>:
> > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:08:40PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
> >> Thanks for all your answers.
> >>
> >> markand at Melon ~ $ sudo tunefs -p /dev/ad0s1f
> > <snip>
> >> tunefs: volume label: (-L)                                 usr
> >>
> >> It's weird, as you can see the label is set but nothing in /dev/label,
> >> /dev/ufs, /dev/vol !
> >
> 
> Aaah ! So I understand everything now ! Is this written somewhere ?

See §19.6 (Labeling Disk Devices) in the FreeBSD Handbook. However, it is not mentioned
there that labels are removed when the partition is mounted. Maybe that
behavior is recent?

Roland
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