Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:33:21 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Drive Nomenclature and How to Figure it out Message-ID: <AANLkTim3WzmmhKMN=nPhp50T6pPpH29VnTkBjXKCBUbW@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201009031410.o83EAfOB020540@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <201009031410.o83EAfOB020540@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>wrote: > I have been writing a script to build a system from a > mfsboot startup and it is going well but I want to revisit part > of the script that I don't think I did a very good job with. > > Is there an automatic way to tell which of the devices > shown in /dev is a likely system drive? This is before anything > is mounted. > > We can usually figure it out ourselves, but is there a > way for a script to figure out automatically which character > device could be the one we are going to put the OS on and use as > our boot drive? > > I know this sounds really obvious and you can tell > scripts not to use /dev/acdx as they are CDROM devices, but > system drives can actually take many different names depending > on whether they are RAIDs SCSI IDE, etc. > > Any good suggestions are appreciated. > Would doing something like: gpart list help? -- Adam Vande More
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