Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-23 Thread Gareth Brown
PJ wrote: I understood that labeling a disk with glabel would permit the disk to be switched to another system and booting from that disk would not require other manupulations than adjusting network configuration, samba, rc.conf and a few others.. But what if there is already a disk on the

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-20 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:12:06 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: this is ad12; ad6 is the same - I guess I hae to get rid of those labels in ad6 but am not sure if I need to use glabel to remove them or if just editing fstab will do it? You could indicate if

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-20 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:57:53 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Exactly what is happening on my system. That's basically what has been troubling me. I cloned ad12 to ad6 and then wanted to boot from ad6... well, everytime I boot from ad6 the boot is from ad12 because both have identical

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-20 Thread michael
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:57:53 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Exactly what is happening on my system. That's basically what has been troubling me. I cloned ad12 to ad6 and then wanted to boot from ad6... well, everytime I boot from ad6 the boot is from ad12 because

glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
I understood that labeling a disk with glabel would permit the disk to be switched to another system and booting from that disk would not require other manupulations than adjusting network configuration, samba, rc.conf and a few others.. But what if there is already a disk on the system with the

RE: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Johan Hendriks
I understood that labeling a disk with glabel would permit the disk to be switched to another system and booting from that disk would not require other manupulations than adjusting network configuration, samba, rc.conf and a few others.. But what if there is already a disk on the system with the

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Johan Hendriks wrote: I understood that labeling a disk with glabel would permit the disk to be switched to another system and booting from that disk would not require other manupulations than adjusting network configuration, samba, rc.conf and a few others.. But what if there is

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Johan Hendriks wrote: I understood that labeling a disk with glabel would permit the disk to be switched to another system and booting from that disk would not require other manupulations than adjusting network configuration, samba, rc.conf and a few others.. But what if there is

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Yes, this is true and that is why I thought that glabel would work; I am trying to set up my computers with identical clones that I can update with changes on the master machine from time to time and thus prevent data loss in

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Yes, this is true and that is why I thought that glabel would work; I am trying to set up my computers with identical clones that I can update with

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Yes, this is true and that is why I thought that glabel would work; I am trying to set up my computers with identical clones that I can update with

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Yes, this is true and that is why I thought that glabel would work; I am trying to

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Yes, this is true

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:46 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:58 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Actually, I have been trying to clone a disk and then install the disk in another machine or same clone in several machines. That's why I thought that once the clone is make it would boot on any machine. This in presuming

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:46 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:58 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Actually, I have been trying to clone a disk and then install the disk in another machine or same clone in several machines. That's why I thought that once

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:12 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: # DeviceMountpointFStypeOptionsDumpPass# /dev/label/swapnoneswapsw00 /dev/label/rootfs/ufsrw11 /dev/label/backups/backupsufs

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:12 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: # DeviceMountpointFStypeOptionsDumpPass# /dev/label/swapnoneswapsw00 /dev/label/rootfs/ufsrw11

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:58 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:12 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: # DeviceMountpointFStypeOptionsDumpPass# /dev/label/swapnoneswapsw00

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:59:43 +0200, Johan Hendriks jo...@double-l.nl wrote: Switching between machines is not what labels are for.(enlighten me if it is) It CAN. If /etc/fstab content matches the labels of the partitions, it matches them regardless of the disk they are on (da[0123...] or

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:58:18 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Actually, I have been trying to clone a disk and then install the disk in another machine or same clone in several machines. That's why I thought that once the clone is make it would boot on any machine. This in presuming

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:12:06 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: this is ad12; ad6 is the same - I guess I hae to get rid of those labels in ad6 but am not sure if I need to use glabel to remove them or if just editing fstab will do it? You could indicate if a given disk is your working