On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Matt Smith wrote:
On 2012-08-27 19:42, Warren Block wrote:
No obvious problems jumped out at me. Here are my notes:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
The gpart version is halfway down. I really need to switch that around.
Oooooh! You're the owner of that site. As it happens those were the exact
instructions that I used to try and figure out how to do it as you are first
in google for "freebsd gpt newfs"!
Hah--I'm famous!
It's just a shame that I then decided to use the same method that I had used
before on my old system for the labelling. On my old system I had used MBR
partitioning and so needed to use glabel for labelling the swap and I then
used the same thing for the UFS partition for consistency in the fstab. It
never occurred to me when I was labelling the GPT partitions that I could
have used those directly.
"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."
One thing that is still bugging me though is I'm wondering why I had no
problem with this on my old system. That was using a dangerously dedicated
disk with MBR where the root partition was just /dev/ada4a.
It was also using UFS2 with SU+J enabled and I had used glabel in
exactly the same way but on this box it had not done any damage.
Shutdown etc worked perfectly fine. Is there something different with
the way GPT partitions work?
In use, GPT partitioning should work just the same. Without recreating
it, hard to define the difference that caused the shutdown problem.
Thank you for your help anyway, and your wonkity site, which I also once used
for converting my procmail to maildrop. And thanks also to Erich and Stefan
for your help. When I get some spare time I'll redo the filesystem and hope
that it works.
Please post a followup after that.
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