2009/7/12 Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net>:
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> On Saturday 11 July 2009 06:41:26 Matt Smith wrote:
>> On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:23:18 +0400, Kamigishi Rei <spambox@haruhiism.net>
>>
>> wrote:
>> > If you check June'09 archives, you'll find out that there already was a
>> > question about this, coming from a person with FreeBSD installed on a
>> > dangerously dedicated disk.
>> > Are you sure you aren't using a DDD (a drive that has no DOS/GPT
>> > partition tables, just the bsdlabel)?
>>
>> Ahhh. I have just found the thread you are referring to in the archives.
>> That explains it I think. I do indeed have a dangerously dedicated disk
>> because I only run the one O/S on it and never need it to be compatible
>> with anything else. So it looks like 7.x did things wrongly and now in 8
>> it's working as designed.
>
> I do think this is worth mentioning in UPDATING, perhaps with the advice
> ("strongly recommended") to label partitions before upgrading so that one is
> not depending on device naming conventions in the first place.

Using the extant ufsid scheme confessedly functionally equivalent
also decrease in anxiety, as fsck clears inodes and I can't tell which
partition, cos /dev/ufsid/beefbeef00f00f looks a lot like anything else
in hexidecimal: like double the symbols of octal.

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