Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:05:04 +0000 From: Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com> To: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name Message-ID: <20080121170504.GA73013@cheddar.urgle.com> In-Reply-To: <20080121165551.GB50246@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20080120161831.L62033@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <20080120142042.GA8576@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20080121085409.T1673@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <20080121165551.GB50246@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > > >> It is possible, but not as daX. Use the glabel(8) utility to label your > >> disks. They will show up as /dev/label/<yourlabel> > > On 7.0-PRERELEASE, 'options GEOM_LABEL' is built into of the GENERIC > kernel, so it shouldn't be necessary there. Note that you can use UFS (and other filesystems labeling) too: for example. 'newfs -L bobs_disk' will cause the device containing it to appear as /dev/ufs/bobs_disk. This approach may be better for removable disks; it'll play better with other OSs, for example. -- Shenanigans! Shenanigans! Best of 3! -- Flash
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