Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:07:34 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Indigo <indigo@voda.cz> Cc: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: labels and layout Message-ID: <20070209150734.GB1193@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <op.tnhjv0np5sheu4@spyro.eiecon.net> References: <op.tnhjv0np5sheu4@spyro.eiecon.net>
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--V0207lvV8h4k8FAm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:29:50PM +0100, Indigo wrote: > Hello everyone, > heres a batch of question: >=20 > Im looking for a way to mount disks by label instead of device. Im on 6.2= =20 > and I can't use ZFS until it gets released. > I saw that tunefs and newfs have some label option - but I assumed it's = =20 > not the kind of label I want because no one is using it. >=20 > An example with AdvFS (Tru64): > # mount > root_domain#root on / type advfs (rw) > /proc on /proc type procfs (rw) > usr_domain#usr on /usr type advfs (rw) > var_domain#var on /var type advfs (rw) >=20 > I just think it's stupid to edit fstab every time Im swapping things =20 > inside the box - I think it's needless. ufs labels as set by tunefs and newfs work fine as long as your load the geom_label module. I'm honestly not sure what it isn't in GENERIC. It's really useful. You can also use glabel labels for your swap partitions. -- Brooks --V0207lvV8h4k8FAm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFzI41XY6L6fI4GtQRApgIAJ4qz7BKvHNblNZQ7emu2kiwkey2nACfV2fR doQV2nGOKZzkYmLLVNgh7QM= =OZ6i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --V0207lvV8h4k8FAm--
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