Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 18:02:21 -0400 From: William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: add in SATA card -- ada0 "moves" to ad1, breaking the boot process ? Message-ID: <CAFsnNZJ1KdqSypM3KsZVEfMhRwUA=zDRP_6sujrmFeLQXjnR7w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a2d4a02d-ffdd-483b-8ff5-4e27a70530b4@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAFsnNZJ2iq8bm=71S3Gp379gqE9H0aF6ucqmERO-q_BhGui1DA@mail.gmail.com> <a2d4a02d-ffdd-483b-8ff5-4e27a70530b4@FreeBSD.org>
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--0000000000007edd5e061d789c7b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks tunefs -L foo it is, then. Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 4:33=E2=80=AFPM Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org= > wrote: > On 17/07/2024 20:58, William Dudley wrote: > > How do I prevent the drive names from changing? Or can't I? > > > > One of the following? > > * glabel(8) for gpart(8) disk partitions > > * tunefs(8) can add a label to UFS2 filesytems > > In either case a disk device using the label will appear under /dev, and > you can use that in fstab(5) > > You might already have labels on your drive partitions: the FreeBSD > installer creates them by default. Try `gpart show -l` to see. > > Or just use ZFS -- it knows its own drives, no matter what device the OS > wants to call them. There's a fun party trick to take out the drives > containing a ZFS pool, shuffle them around, reinstall and boot up again. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > --0000000000007edd5e061d789c7b Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">Thanks<div><br></div><div>tunefs -L foo it is, then.</div>= <div><br></div><div>Bill Dudley<br clear=3D"all"><div><div dir=3D"ltr" clas= s=3D"gmail_signature" data-smartmail=3D"gmail_signature">This email is free= of malware because I run Linux.</div></div><br></div></div><br><div class= =3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 17, 2024= at 4:33=E2=80=AFPM Matthew Seaman <<a href=3D"mailto:matthew@freebsd.or= g">matthew@freebsd.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_q= uote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,2= 04);padding-left:1ex">On 17/07/2024 20:58, William Dudley wrote:<br> > How do I prevent the drive names from changing?=C2=A0 Or can't I?<= br> > <br> <br> One of the following?<br> <br> * glabel(8) for gpart(8) disk partitions<br> <br> * tunefs(8) can add a label to UFS2 filesytems<br> <br> In either case a disk device using the label will appear under /dev, and <b= r> you can use that in fstab(5)<br> <br> You might already have labels on your drive partitions: the FreeBSD <br> installer creates them by default.=C2=A0 Try `gpart show -l` to see.<br> <br> Or just use ZFS -- it knows its own drives, no matter what device the OS <b= r> wants to call them.=C2=A0 There's a fun party trick to take out the dri= ves <br> containing a ZFS pool, shuffle them around, reinstall and boot up again.<br= > <br> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Cheers,<br> <br> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Matthew<br> <br> </blockquote></div> --0000000000007edd5e061d789c7b--
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