Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:34:59 +0100 From: Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, up@3.am Subject: Re: Questions re: disklabel for external USB drives Message-ID: <20061211213459.739348d5@loki.starkstrom.lan> In-Reply-To: <20061211191729.GA66953@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0612111400430.41176-100000@richard2.pil.net> <20061211191729.GA66953@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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--Sig_kc8cTXwf3yJUhEyLb_NnIEJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:17:29 -0500 Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: > > Is there an easy way to force the device to work as something like: > >=20 > > /dev/da1s1d > >=20 > > on all of the servers, including ones that do not already have a > > SCSI disk subsystem and existing /dev/da0 devices? >=20 > I think, in FreeBSD SCSI device stuff, you can force it to be > something, but I have never done it and don't know how - and since > it doesn't matter, don't see the reason to try. A imho better solution is to load the geom_label class. Then either give the device itself a label: da3s1d -> label/usbstick42s1d or set the UFS Label field of the filesystems via 'tunefs -L', this will give you for example da5s1a -> ufs/ustick5data da5s1d -> ufs/ustick5keys or whatever you set the label to, obviously. If geom_label is loaded, you have unique device names on all servers (if you don't mix things up when you label them). Regards, Joerg --=20 | /"\ ASCII ribbon | GnuPG Key ID | e86d b753 3deb e749 6c3a | | \ / campaign against | 0xbbcaad24 | 5706 1f7d 6cfd bbca ad24 | | X HTML in email | .the next sentence is true. | | / \ and news | .the previous sentence was a lie. | --Sig_kc8cTXwf3yJUhEyLb_NnIEJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFfcDzH31s/bvKrSQRAjoTAJ96usn8CteMywvnHhIu1yBYDPw4kQCbBUX0 5tcp4mzK350H/d02zraMQoo= =Pns6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_kc8cTXwf3yJUhEyLb_NnIEJ--
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