On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Matthew Jacob <mj_at_feral.com> wrote: > >>> now that I've worked with it a bit, I really like it. Doing this by >>> default >>> in 9.0 would be a really useful step forward, and would allow greater >>> innovation down the road. >>> >>> Is there a handy tutorial somewhere for making this change in FreeBSD? Or >>> is >>> it even possible to do in a rational way? >> >> glabel create <label> /dev/<blah> >> sed -i 's,/dev/<blah>,/dev/labels/<label>,g' /etc/fstab >> > > or, dumpfs /dev/ad0a (or whatever it is) to get the UFS id, and do that, as > in: > > > /dev/ufsid/4cbfaf39a70e852e / ufs rw 1 1 Same basic idea works for other filesystems according to the glabel manpage. It's just that the above method is pretty straigtforward to deal with and won't change if you newfs a partition, right :) (only if you wipe out whatever is used on the backend for holding the partition data)? Thanks, -GarrettReceived on Wed Apr 20 2011 - 22:14:50 UTC
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