Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:11:17 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A script that modifies /etc/fstab to mount devices via glabel Message-ID: <200912290111.17781.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <4B391265.5080908@borderworlds.dk> References: <4B391265.5080908@borderworlds.dk>
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On Monday 28 December 2009 21:17:41 Christian Laursen wrote: > Hi there, > > I wrote a script that modifies fstab so that UFS filesystems are mounted > via their UFS IDs and swap partitions are labeled with glabel in order > to access them that way. > > It works for me on at least FreeBSD 7.2 and 8.0. Use at your own risk. > > For swap devices it is neccesary to label the device in order to > recognize it later and that requires that swap is turned off briefly. > > The script requires perl to run. > > The script is here: > http://borderworlds.dk/utils/fstab-glabel.pl > > Feel free to use it if you find it useful. Works as advertised, thank you! It is probably faster to extract the label from glabel status -s <node> instead of using dumpfs though. - Pieter
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