Anyway to change pool to use the gpt label instead of gptid?

Freddie Cash fjwcash at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 14:58:30 UTC 2011


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at freebsd.org>wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:58:53PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> > > This looks like a bug or design oddity in GEOM.  Based on your setup
> you
> > > should have swap[0-5] and disk[0-5] in /dev/gpt, not just swap[0-5].
> >
> > GEOM shows all providers for a disk/partition that is not in use. Once
> you
> > acces a disk/partition via a particular provider, all others are hidden.
> > This is to prevent you from accessing a particular disk/paprtition via
> > multiple names.
>


> This is a bit more complex than that.
>
> Thanks for the extra info!!

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Freddie Cash
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