1. Change your root fstab record to /dev/ada0s4a (not label!), reboot to single mode and try to re-label partition.
2. Try boot from live CD or installation CD (fixup console) and label file system without mounting 2011/6/8 Matthias Andree <matthias.and...@gmx.de>: > Greetings, > > I've tried to re-label an existing (and up to date) 8-STABLE > installation's root partition. This failed, tunefs reports it cannot > write the super block. > > I have attempted this sequence: > > 1. reboot (through BIOS and loader) directly into single-user mode > (boot -s) > 2. sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 > 3. tunefs -L root /dev/ada0s4a # that's the dev I mount the root > # partition from > > Still no joy => tunefs cannot update the super block. > > Remounting / as rw doesn't help, as expected. > > The root fs uses softupdates but no journalling -- what other hoops do I > need to jump through to create labels for my root ufs file system? > > Thanks. > > Best regards, > Matthias > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > ------- wbr, Nickolas _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
