From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 27 16:10:01 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAB1D9C1 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:10:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) Received: from redcondor1.peak.org (redcondor1.peak.org [69.59.192.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2D158FC14 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:10:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zmail-mta01.peak.org ([207.55.16.111]) by redcondor1.peak.org ({34b3fc79-8c76-4cfb-a4c0-c941747cf3b5}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTP id 20121027160635475 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:06:35 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from birch.localnet (unknown [207.55.106.48]) by zmail-mta01.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3BA6C494031 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oak.localnet (oak.localnet [192.168.193.34]) by birch.localnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA68556E8 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:06:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oak.localnet (localhost.localnet [127.0.0.1]) by oak.localnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B766DADE for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:06:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from carlj@localhost) by oak.localnet (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q9RG6WhR086606; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:06:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) X-Authentication-Warning: oak.localnet: carlj set sender to carlj@peak.org using -f From: Carl Johnson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ata controller problem References: <508A7F88.8050309@ze.tum.de> <20121026180013.45c95ea7.freebsd@edvax.de> <508B9A85.1030708@ze.tum.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:06:32 -0700 In-Reply-To: <508B9A85.1030708@ze.tum.de> (Gerhard Schmidt's message of "Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:25:41 +0200") Message-ID: <87k3ubsxvb.fsf@oak.localnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MAG-OUTBOUND: peakinternet.redcondor.net@207.55.16/22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:10:01 -0000 Gerhard Schmidt writes: > Labels are good for naming Drives but how does it help me if the root > filesystem changing device ids. I don't think the boot loader is able to > use the label for the root Filesystem. >From my fstab: /dev/ufs/Oak / ufs rw,noatime 1 1 /dev/label/OakSwap none swap sw 0 0 I think any of the other label schemes will also work. If you don't remember which label is which device id, then 'glabel status' will show that, but you shouldn't need to. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org