Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:03:00 -0500 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geom_label, fstab without device names & swap partition? Message-ID: <20110112190300.GC61893@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <628423291.20110112210201@serebryakov.spb.ru> References: <628423291.20110112210201@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:02:01PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Stable. > > Now, with "newfs -L name", geom_label and /dev/ufs/* it is possible > to not use device names for FSes in "/etc/fstab" at all. But what to > do with swap partitions? How to say, that I want swap on > "/dev/ada0s1b" or "/dev/ad0s1b" whatever name it has now? Have you tried using glabel(8)? It allows you to assign a name to a slice. The slice should not be in use at the time, and if it has a filesystem on it you may have problems as glabel(8) uses the last block for a data store. Regards, Gary
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