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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:54:11 -0800
From:      Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
To:        Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: geom_label, fstab without device names & swap partition?
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2011/1/12 Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>:
> =C2=A0Now, with "newfs -L name", geom_label and /dev/ufs/* it is possible
> to not use device names for FSes in "/etc/fstab" at all. But what to
> do with swap partitions? How to say, that I want swap on
> "/dev/ada0s1b" or "/dev/ad0s1b" whatever name it has now?

Use glabel(8) to label the device:

# glabel label swap ada0s1b

Then point to the label in /etc/fstab:

/dev/label/swap    swap   sw ...


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Freddie Cash
fjwcash@gmail.com



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