Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:42:25 -0600 From: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Renaming USB device Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3394F786@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> In-Reply-To: <20091111012230.ddd3acc5.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3394F75F@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <20091111003430.a95d79c8.freebsd@edvax.de> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3394F772@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <20091111012230.ddd3acc5.freebsd@edvax.de>
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>In this case, labelling the USB stick would be a good chioce. The /etc/fst= ab entries then refer to those labels instead of device names (that could c= hange). >You can use generic labels as well as UFS labels here; even a reference to= the UFSID would be possible, as well as independant from da detection orde= r. > >For the target hard disk, which sometimes is ad (ATA disks), sometimes da = (SCSI and SATA disks), a conditional based upon dmesg could be a good way > to automate the process of finding out where to install to. Okay, labeling it is. I'll check this option out. Thanks!
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