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Subject: Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name
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On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:05:04 +0000
Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com> wrote:

 
> 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.

For an existing filesystem you'll need to use tunefs instead of newfs.