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On 25/07/2011, at 11:03, Stephen Hocking wrote:
> Now this is all very interesting, but I would like to be able to map
> that back to a /dev/adXpY device entry, so when I offline them I can
> then go to the appropriate physical disk. I thought that gpart show -r
> might help, but the numbers emitted from that don't match up. Looking
> at the major/minor numbers of the devices don't help either. Does
> anyone have an idea?


If you run 'gpart list' you will see a list of device names and UUIDs.

Mapping it by hand is a bit tedious though..

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