On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Aisaka Taiga wrote: > > 'create' is the manual method which won't store any metadata - > > 'label' stores it in the last sector of the provider. > > I might be mistaken here as I tried that in May, when I upgraded my > production server to 7.2; I probably tried using the 'label' > subcommand or it wouldn't show up on boot, right? (There was a > mistype in my earlier message; should be "label for provider ad0s1b > is label/swap", not "ad0s1a".) I guess I'll find out tomorrow when I reboot my laptop and see what happens. However, given that it works for Louis you might want to reconsider it. > > The other alternative is to > > use /dev/ufsid/xxx which won't require a newfs as your existing > > FS's have an ID already (presuming you are using GENERIC). > > The problem with ufsids is that unlike a manually set label, you > can't really distinguish between them (as opposed to the default > scheme of sXY where for a boot device you can be almost 80% certain > that ad0s1a is /, f is /usr, etc etc - especially if the default > number of partitions was created). The UFSID is unique for a given newfs (mostly - it is the timestamp I believe). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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