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From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To: varanasi sainath <varanasisai@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: UUID in fstab.
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:24:03 -0400
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On Monday, August 26, 2013 12:06:21 am varanasi sainath wrote:
> Thanks John, I have tried as you suggested using a Live CD and yes the
> partitions uuid's are present in gptid  ..
> I found the UUID's in /dev/gptid - how do I determine which uid corresponds
> to which partition (ufs or swap or boot) (I used glabel status and after
> some trial and error I found them) edited the fstab accordingly and
> everything is working now ..

The other way would be to examine the kern.geom.confxml output directly as I
think you can probably use that to map between them.

> Is there a way to have both the /dev/XXXpYY and /dev/gptid/<uuid> present
> in /dev/

Not currently.  freebsd-geom@ is probably the best place to ask that question.

-- 
John Baldwin