Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:18:12 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: varanasi sainath <varanasisai@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UUID in fstab. Message-ID: <503E443D-BC48-4284-8FC4-22B0A50DF147@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <CAL_6YgQy174h5UxK53jU2%2BfsZiQkOWqxZkRk=CYuJuvn3HXiXQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAL_6YgQy174h5UxK53jU2%2BfsZiQkOWqxZkRk=CYuJuvn3HXiXQ@mail.gmail.com>
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/dev/gptid/$UID maybe what you are looking for? Warner On Aug 21, 2013, at 12:16 AM, varanasi sainath wrote: > Hello, > > How to find UUID's for Disk volumes. > > I have used sysctl -a | grep uuid and was able to find > <type>freebsd-swap</type> > <rawuuid>b55ff220-dcdd-11e2-a324-00155d55b20c</rawuuid> > > <type>freebsd-ufs</type> > <rawuuid>b55762fc-dcdd-11e2-a324-00155d55b20c</rawuuid> > > are these the corresponding UUID's for swap and ufs. > > I din't find /dev/ufsid folder to get the UUID's > > I have used glabel and was able to create labels, system boots well, > everything works fine but I don't want to use labels (operating constraint: > to create labels I have to boot into single user mode, is there a way to > create labels on mounted partitions (I hope not)). > > I found gptid folder which has boot UUID can this be used? > > How to use UUID's in fstab? > > I have tried using > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump > Pass# > uuid=b55762fc-dcdd-11e2-a324-00155d55b20c / ufs rw 1 1 > > that din't work. > > I found (from a post) /dev/ufsid/<uuid> should be used in fstab but I don't > see ufsid in /dev. Do we need to create this or does the system does it? > > Note: > Using FreeBSD 9.1. created partitions using the guided partition tool. > > Reason: using a SCSI storage driver which changes the drive name > accordingly but freebsd installer (boot) is unable to find the drives which > results in boot failure. > > Thanks, > Sainath.* > * > * > * > *"Learning is the key to excellence".* > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-drivers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-drivers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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