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Date:      Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:07:15 -0800
From:      "Kevin Downey" <redchin@gmail.com>
To:        Indigo <indigo@voda.cz>
Cc:        "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: labels and layout
Message-ID:  <1d3ed48c0702090907j368d76c0y820424e9a3609288@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.tnhjv0np5sheu4@spyro.eiecon.net>
References:  <op.tnhjv0np5sheu4@spyro.eiecon.net>

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On 2/9/07, Indigo <indigo@voda.cz> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>   heres a batch of question:
>
> Im looking for a way to mount disks by label instead of device. Im on 6.2
> 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
> not the kind of label I want because no one is using it.
>
> 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)
>
> I just think it's stupid to edit fstab every time Im swapping things
> inside the box - I think it's needless.
>
>
>
geom_lable.ko is I think the kernel module for glabel. Works great.
The labels on filesystems show up in /dev/label,

kpd@zifnab ~% ls /dev/label
BigDisk.root BigDisk.swap BigDisk.usr  BigDisk.var


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