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From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Cc: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Label question...why does ufs label vanish on mount?
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For some reason the /dev/ufs/label entry that geom creates for every UFS
formatted partition is deleted when the device is mounted. This is not
the case for other file systems, though I have not tried them all. It
makes the drive much harder to deal with when you have to keep track of
which physical drive contains the labeled media. It is a particular
issue for hald and the tools which depend on it.

Is there a good reason for this odd behavior of UFS? If there is not a
good reason, could it be changed?
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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