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On Feb 28, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Chris wrote:

> Ahh thats useful, on the occasions I have remotely installed freebsd
> over linux I have always failed due to incorrectly guessing the hd id
> and as such a wrong fstab, if I know it will always be ad0 and ad1 and
> so on it makes this much easier.
>

I much prefer to use glabel for this purpose, when the hardware might  
change.