On 29 February 2012 10:33, Robert Huff <roberth...@rcn.com> wrote: > > Warren Block writes: >> > I have a disk - ad1 - with a partition - p2 - that was >> > (obviously) created by gpart ... but no label was attached. >> > Can I add a label to that partition later? "man gpart" only >> > shows a label being added when the partition is created, >> >> (untested) >> # gpart modify -i 2 -l mylabel ada0 > > I did this, and nothing exploded. :-) > When (and where) should I expect to see these appear under > /dev? Immediately? After rebooting? I want to edit fstab, but > want to be clear on how. >
The label(s) should be accessible immediately, HOWEVER: if the filesystem is mounted rw they'll be lost on reboot. So you probably want to do the labelling from single-user mode. -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"