Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:47:16 -0400 From: Graham Todd <gtodd@bellanet.org> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Identifying disks with serial number Message-ID: <4A9FF314.1080909@bellanet.org>
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Hello all, Quick question on disk serial numbers. Besides manually geom_label-ling disks by serial number is there an automagic way for geom to present serial numbers to the system/devfs? I'm not using ZFS or anything but I've got to the point where anything that helps with juggling disks would be nice. I noticed a newish DragonflyBSD feature that does this. They "label" disks with serial numbers, devfs seems to see them and then you can use convenience aliases in /etc/devtab to make the serial number ID referenceable in /etc/fstab). See: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2009-08/msg00149.html Something similar was discussed in freebsd-arch thread long ago (by the usual suspects (-: ): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2006-June/005344.html Is there a documented way to "autolabel" disks by serial number in FreeBSD? Thanks for all replies.
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