Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:29:47 -0300 From: Mario Lobo <mlobo@digiart.art.br> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name Message-ID: <200801211429.47891.mlobo@digiart.art.br> In-Reply-To: <200801211419.54729.mlobo@digiart.art.br> References: <20080120161831.L62033@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <20080121170504.GA73013@cheddar.urgle.com> <200801211419.54729.mlobo@digiart.art.br>
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On Monday 21 January 2008 14:19:54 Mario Lobo wrote: > 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/<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. > > I simply put > > /dev/da0s1 /PenDrive msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 > > on fstab. After I plug it in, I type > > mount /PenDrive. In KDE, I use Kwikdisk to mount it. > > Mario Lobo > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Sorry for the multiple posts. I have just installed FBSD 7 here on my desktop and I am struggling a bit to recover my kmail configs from my previous 6.2. By the way, I've been using it for 3 days and I must say right way how incredibly improved and smooth multitasking is on 7 !! Mario Lobo
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