Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:50:50 +0100 From: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mounting swap without device name Message-ID: <m5tgcq$f9i$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Good evening, dear readers! :-) Changing device IDs can be a pain. Adding a hard drive to my system results in the system not booting anymore because the device name for / changes after the second drive is detected. I have overcome this by having an fstab like this: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ufs/root / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ada0s3b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ufs/var /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ufs/usr /usr ufs rw 2 2 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 As is plain to see, my machine boots from an MBR drive (in this case an SSD). Note the swap drive however. I have not found a way so far to label the swap partition in a way that I can make the system find it at boot time. Is there a way to do this and if so, then how? Best regards, Chris
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