Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:51:25 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using /dev/adX instead of adXc or adXe Message-ID: <cb5206420603140151u5cc74011y242b539eaa772904@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0603131447ufd5aabfm86f5c766b9ee9d7e@mail.gmail.com> References: <cb5206420603131221qbf0850fn47ad9f43f246e609@mail.gmail.com> <d7195cff0603131447ufd5aabfm86f5c766b9ee9d7e@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/14/06, illoai@gmail.com <illoai@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/13/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com> wrote: > > What's wrong with "newfs /dev/ad1" "mount /dev/ad1 /mnt" > > and using it? The disk will never be used as bootable, and > > will never be installed in a non-bsd computer. It's just there > > for storage. > > > > So is there a caveat? > > I've heard of it being done accidently with no ill effects, > and I've done it under qemu with no ill effects. It makes > me feel better to have some abstraction WRT disks, I've > tended to use glabel(8) for handling this. Hmm, glabel sounds nice. I wonder if I can get away with labelling a live disk and just replacing /dev/adX with /dev/label/mydiskXXX in fstab. Looks like I can replug the drives any way I want and still have them mounted correctly after that, right?
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