update to 8.0-RELEASE --> partition gone

[Ben Morrow]

Quoth Xin LI <delphij at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Ben Morrow <ben at morrow.me.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Are you able to clarify exactly what is no longer working in 8? I've
> > read things here and there about dangerously dedicated disks no longer
> > being supported, but no detail about what exactly had changed. You seem
> > to be implying here that there is only a problem if there are invalid
> > and/or overlapping labels on the disk; elsewhere I have read that disks
> > without an MBR aren't supported at all (I presume the faked-up MBR on a
> > GPT disk counts). If I currently have a working ad2{b,c,d,e}, will they
> > be picked up by 8, or would I have to repartition slightly smaller with
> > a useless MBR slice in front?
> 
> My $0.02: what about labelling them, say, tunefs -L on UFS partitions,
> and glabel for swap, then change corresponding entry in fstab.  Say:
<snip>

Yes, I've already done that. However, if gpart doesn't pick up the
underlying ad2d partition glabel won't know to look for a label, so the
entry in /dev/ufs won't show up either.

Ben