Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:39:55 -0800 From: John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable device names for USB disks? Message-ID: <42266AEB.8070500@cloudview.com> In-Reply-To: <20050303000414.GF77052@dan.emsphone.com> References: <42264DC5.6030409@cloudview.com> <20050303000414.GF77052@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Mar 02), John Pettitt said: > > >>I seem to recall there was a neat trick involving GEOM to allow USB >>disks to be mounted in the same place every time the system boots but I >>can't find it. Right now my system (5.3 RELEASE) seems to being a >>random da? device for each drive that changes with every reboot - >>clearly not a good situation. >> >>Does anybody have a fix for this? >> >> > >Two options: > >- Wire your devices down (man scsi) so that your usb controller is > always, say, scbus1, and target 0 off scbus1 is da1. You may also > have to wire down your boot controller and disk. > >- Use geom_label, label your FAT32 or ufs filesystems, and always mount > /dev/msdosfs/blah or /dev/ufs/blah > > Very cool - I built a stripe set whihc is showing up fine a /dev/stripe/data2 but I can't get a single volume to show up I did tunefs -L data /dev/da1s1d - added GEOM_LABEL to the kernel config, rebuilt and rebooted but no /dev/ufs appears - what am I missing?
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