Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:01:48 -0800 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geom_label, fstab without device names & swap partition? Message-ID: <AANLkTi=cq2fXSD%2Bn4%2BXiVuetB0tY%2BGbaZXwV2x4Az=A3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinu6Y9_Vn3mtnsC3L7YSVes%2BgTd7YyZ=R139hN=@mail.gmail.com> References: <628423291.20110112210201@serebryakov.spb.ru> <AANLkTin=ug708a9c3WozMLhqxQ4=FiC-nvah3RRdj4F1@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinu6Y9_Vn3mtnsC3L7YSVes%2BgTd7YyZ=R139hN=@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> wrote: > 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 possib= le >>> 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 True, but for a swap partition, it's easy to disable swap, label the partition, and re-enable swap. :) --=20 Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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