8.0: glabel on a gjournaled FS is broken

[Adam Vande More]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Oliver Lehmann <oliver at freebsd.org> wrote:

> And one adition:
>
> I also have an external harddisk /dev/da1s1 which I labled with "backup"
> with RC1. I unfortunally got a /dev/ufs/backup as well as
> a /dev/ufs/backupd for the 4th partition of the 1st slide /dev/da1s1d.
>
> I wanted to fix this (label da1s1d as backup) and booted into the single
> user mode, and typed "glabel destroy backup". The two backup+backupd
> entries in /dev/ufs where gone.
> I then rebooted once more into the single user mode and now I have backup
> +backupd again. Something seems to be definitly broken here :(
>
> No - I have not mounted that filesystem at any time.
>
> --
>  Oliver Lehmann
>
>
man glabel:

 stop     Turn off the given label by its name.  This command does not
              touch on-disk metadata!

     destroy  Same as stop.

     clear    Clear metadata on the given devices.


You want clear for changes to persist.




-- 
Adam Vande More