Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-29 Thread Matt Smith
On 2012-08-28 22:51, Matt Smith wrote: On 2012-08-27 21:35, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Matt Smith wrote: 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

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-28 Thread Matt Smith
On 2012-08-27 21:35, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Matt Smith wrote: 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

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 27.08.2012 um 11:06 schrieb Matt Smith: I posted on this mailing list two weeks ago and never received any replies so I decided to raise a PR via the web form. But I think I submitted it under the wrong category and it's marked as low priority as well. But I think this is something that

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread clay
On 27.08.2012 10:06, Matt Smith wrote: I posted on this mailing list two weeks ago and never received any replies so I decided to raise a PR via the web form. But I think I submitted it under the wrong category and it's marked as low priority as well. But I think this is something that is a

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread Matt Smith
On 2012-08-27 10:28, Stefan Bethke wrote: Is there a particular reason you've decided to glabel your partitions instead of using GPT labels? Which device did you do the newfs on, the GPT partition or the glabel device? My hunch is that the label metadata sector at the end of the GPT partition

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread Matt Smith
On 2012-08-27 10:25, c...@milos.co.za wrote: I'm far from anything near an expert on file systems but I'd suggest you remove softupdates and leave journaling on. tunefs -n disable There's no need to have both on and although I agree that both SHOULD work together there's no reason to have them

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:12:52 +0100 Matt Smith m...@xtaz.co.uk wrote: On 2012-08-27 10:28, Stefan Bethke wrote: Is there a particular reason you've decided to glabel your partitions instead of using GPT labels? Which device did you do the newfs on, the GPT partition or the glabel

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread Matt Smith
On 2012-08-27 11:26, Erich Dollansky wrote: I would run plain UFS for / /var and /tmp and see what will happen then. I know what you will answer. But it will help to isolate the problem. Did you mean not use the label at all? If so I just tried this. Set /dev/ada0p2 in the fstab. No

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread clay
On 27.08.2012 11:15, Matt Smith wrote: On 2012-08-27 10:25, c...@milos.co.za wrote: I'm far from anything near an expert on file systems but I'd suggest you remove softupdates and leave journaling on. tunefs -n disable There's no need to have both on and although I agree that both SHOULD work

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Matt Smith wrote: On 2012-08-27 11:26, Erich Dollansky wrote: I would run plain UFS for / /var and /tmp and see what will happen then. I know what you will answer. But it will help to isolate the problem. Did you mean not use the label at all? If so I just tried this.

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread Matt Smith
On 2012-08-27 14:56, Warren Block wrote: Stefan called it. The newfs is done on /dev/gpt/gptroot, no problem there. But when glabel writes to /dev/ada0p2--which is /dev/gpt/gptroot, same thing, it overwrites the last block. And then the filesystem is mounted with the glabel device, which is

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Matt Smith wrote: On 2012-08-27 14:56, Warren Block wrote: Stefan called it. The newfs is done on /dev/gpt/gptroot, no problem there. But when glabel writes to /dev/ada0p2--which is /dev/gpt/gptroot, same thing, it overwrites the last block. And then the filesystem is

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, 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. Changed now so that the gpart(8) version is first.

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread Matt Smith
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. Oh! You're the owner of that site. As it happens those were

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Matt Smith wrote: On 2012-08-27 14:56, Warren Block wrote: Stefan called it. The newfs is done on /dev/gpt/gptroot, no problem there. But when glabel writes to /dev/ada0p2--which is

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Kevin Oberman 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. Pretty good page, but I would really suggest that you also do

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread Warren Block
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. Oh! You're the owner

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Kevin Oberman 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

Re: 9.1 RELENG_9 Unable to cleanly dismount root partition on shutdown

2012-08-27 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Kevin Oberman wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Kevin Oberman 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