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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:03:00 -0500
From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To: Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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Subject: Re: geom_label, fstab without device names & swap partition?
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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