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Subject: Re: SCSI and SAN
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Sharad Chandra wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 	How to distinguish if /dev/da* devices are internal scsi drivers or LUNs of 
> external SAN?
> 
> Is there any tool?
> 
> Thanks for any advice.
> Sharad Chandra
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Once you have identified the devices (using methods already suggested) 
you may want to take a look at geom_label to give friendly names to your 
partitions that are more descriptive than the da... names you have at 
the moment.

Tom