On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Freddie Cash <fjwc...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/1/12 Lev Serebryakov <l...@serebryakov.spb.ru>: >> Now, 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
On a side note there is not a simple way to glabel mounted filesystem > > Then point to the label in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/label/swap swap sw ... > > > -- > Freddie Cash > fjwc...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > glabel is also great for doing silly things like things like this glabel label leftdrive0 /dev/ad4 glabel label rightdrive0 /dev/ad5 gmirror label -v -b load raid1 leftdrive0 rightdrive0 this way when you get a gmirror status you can easily tell which drive is doing what, red rebuilding etc . -- mark saad | nones...@longcount.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"