On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Matthew Jacob <m...@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,
-Garrett
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