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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:00:10 -0500
From:      Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org>
To:        Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: geom_label, fstab without device names & swap partition?
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/1/12 Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>:
>> =C2=A0Now, with "newfs -L name", geom_label and /dev/ufs/* it is possibl=
e
>> 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?
>
> Use glabel(8) to label the device:
>
> # glabel label swap ada0s1b

On a side note there is not a simple way to glabel mounted filesystem

>
> Then point to the label in /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/label/swap =C2=A0 =C2=A0swap =C2=A0 sw ...
>
>
> --
> Freddie Cash
> fjwcash@gmail.com
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glabel is also great for doing silly things like things like this

glabel label leftdrive0 /dev/ad4
glabel label rightdrive0 /dev/ad5
gmirror label -v -b load raid1  leftdrive0 rightdrive0

this way when you get a gmirror status you can easily tell which drive
is doing what, red rebuilding etc .




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mark saad | nonesuch@longcount.org



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