Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:03:48 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Mario Lobo <mlobo@digiart.art.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name Message-ID: <20080121180348.GA52225@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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--bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:16:50PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Monday 21 January 2008 14:05:04 Mike Bristow wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > > >> It is possible, but not as daX. Use the glabel(8) utility to label > > > >> your disks. They will show up as /dev/label/<yourlabel> > > > > > > On 7.0-PRERELEASE, 'options GEOM_LABEL' is built into of the GENERIC > > > kernel, so it shouldn't be necessary there. > > > > Note that you can use UFS (and other filesystems labeling) too: for > > example. 'newfs -L bobs_disk' will cause the device containing it to ap= pear > > as /dev/ufs/bobs_disk. > > > > This approach may be better for removable disks; it'll play better with > > other OSs, for example. >=20 > I simply put; >=20 > /dev/da0s1 /PenDrive msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 >=20 > in fstab. After pluging it in, i type=20 >=20 > mount /PenDrive Keep in mind that this only works for _one_ drive. As soon as you have two, this won't work correctly. If you have multiple drives, you should label them (with newfs_msdos or mtools) e.g. 'diskA' and 'diskB'. With GEOM_LABEL you'll then get /dev/msdosfs/diskA and /dev/msdosfs/diskB, which you can then put in your /etc/fstab; /dev/msdosfs/diskA /mnt/diskA msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/msdosfs/diskB /mnt/diskB msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 Of course you need to own /mnt/diskX if you want to mount it as a normal us= er. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHlN6DEnfvsMMhpyURAiuKAJwIW9MJWn5m1IoqT/bO3X9WfSZBiQCgn7Fi O8gAEAktpgVXopYUT0kZy8E= =qqPn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn--
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