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Subject: Re: glabel(8) a gmirror(8) doesn't work
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dhaneshk k wrote:
> List members;
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/geom-glabel.html
>
> Starting with FreeBSD 7.2, the glabel(8) class
> supports a new label type for UFS file
> systems, based on the unique file system id, ufsid.
>
> Is the above clause  applicable in this case ? instead of using  tunefs  -L 
>
> can we use#  glabel status  ?
>
> and can use the ufsid labels   of  /dev/ufsid/    and  edit  /etc/fstab entries  for the partitions?
>
>
>   

Yes, exactly as noted in the Handbook's example.
Still ufsid labels are not exactly 'memorable'