glabel nor tunefs save my labels

[Carl Johnson]

Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> writes:

> 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?

I am not the original poster, but I tried again and I now am mostly
using labels and the labels are still showing in /dev/ufs/.  I didn't
have labels showing in /dev/ufs, but I changed fstab to what they
should be and rebooted.  The system came up using the labels and they
are showing in /dev/ufs/ and using 'glabel status'.

I say mostly because the /usr partition isn't recognized for some
reason, even though dumpfs and tunefs show the label.  That label is
also not shown in /dev/ufs or using 'glabel status'.  That made the
reboot a little tricky since I had to manually mount /usr in order to
get an editor to edit fstab to continue the boot.

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Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org