Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 16:35:31 -0700 From: "Jason C. Wells" <jasoncwells@fastmail.com> To: "Brandon J. Wandersee" <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem Label Ambiguity Message-ID: <f671cbe9-88f1-8161-a47a-62077dca77e4@fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86pon1dwze.fsf@WorkBox.Home> References: <c183f0a0-4459-228a-edb8-bcd8d393ca20@fastmail.com> <86pon1dwze.fsf@WorkBox.Home>
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On 10/15/2016 4:16 PM, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote: > Jason C. Wells writes: > >> Let's say I have three disks and each of them has a partition labelled >> "volume3" i.e. /dev/ufs/volume3. >> >> How can I determine which of those is currently mounted? >> >> How does the system determine which of those to mount at boot time? > Short answer: Don't do this. OK. So the device renumbering problem has been traded for a naming ambiguity problem. I didn't realize this when I first came upon my naming convention for filesystems. I'll start keeping track of my "volumeX" names and make them unique. I just got lucky that I didn't mount the wrong disks over the course of the last few weeks. Maybe I'll just use UUIDs everywhere. Those are easy to remember. :) Thanks, Jason C. Wells
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