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Date:      Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:50:31 -0300
From:      "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Kamigishi Rei <spambox@haruhiism.net>, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, scottl@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: ATA to CAM integration patch
Message-ID:  <e71790db0906280650w269d21b7y5f1f78b039fcfccb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200906280847.59316.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <4A4517BE.9040504@FreeBSD.org> <20090627141412.GN31709@acme.spoerlein.net> <4A462A7A.20005@haruhiism.net> <200906280847.59316.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Daniel O'Connor<doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote:
[...]
> 7.2 has UFSID in GENERIC so you can mount your disks that way which is
> non-ambiguous.
>
> Unfortunately you can't specify swap this way because it has no ID, I
> don't know how hard it would be to add such a thing (which would
> require a mkswap or somesuch, and modification to the dump & swap
> code..)

You can use glabel to add a label to the raw swap partition. I use to
have a line containing

	/dev/label/BSDSWAP	none	swap	sw	0 0

in /etc/fstab.

-- 
My preferred quotation of Robert Louis Stevenson is "You cannot
make an omelette without breaking eggs". Not because I like the
omelettes, but because I like the sound of eggs being broken.



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