From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 21 17:15:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B1E016A4CA for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:15:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mlobo@digiart.art.br) Received: from ipad.com.br (recife.ipad.com.br [200.249.204.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3112D13C457 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:15:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mlobo@digiart.art.br) Received: (qmail 62874 invoked by uid 79); 21 Jan 2008 17:15:52 -0000 Received: from 189.70.227.91 by recife.ipad.com.br (envelope-from , uid 1008) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.92rc2/5505. spamassassin: 3.1.8. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(189.70.227.91):SA:0(-1.1/2.9):. Processed in 3.842737 secs); 21 Jan 2008 17:15:52 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=2.9 X-Antivirus-IPAD-Mail-From: mlobo@digiart.art.br via recife.ipad.com.br X-Antivirus-IPAD: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(189.70.227.91):SA:0(-1.1/2.9):. Processed in 3.842737 secs Process 62847) Received: from unknown (HELO lobo) (mlobo@digiart.art.br@189.70.227.91) by ipad.com.br with SMTP; 21 Jan 2008 17:15:48 -0000 From: Mario Lobo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:16:50 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080120161831.L62033@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <20080121165551.GB50246@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20080121170504.GA73013@cheddar.urgle.com> In-Reply-To: <20080121170504.GA73013@cheddar.urgle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801211416.50316.> Subject: Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:15:54 -0000 On Monday 21 January 2008 14:05:04 Mike Bristow wrote: > 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/ > > > > 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. I simply put; /dev/da0s1 /PenDrive msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 in fstab. After pluging it in, i type mount /PenDrive Mario