On Monday 21 January 2008 14:19:54 Mario Lobo wrote: > On Monday 21 January 2008 14:05:04 Mike Bristow wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > > >> It is possible, but not as daX. Use the glabel(8) utility to label > > > >> your disks. They will show up as /dev/label/<yourlabel> > > > > > > On 7.0-PRERELEASE, 'options GEOM_LABEL' is built into of the GENERIC > > > kernel, so it shouldn't be necessary there. > > > > Note that you can use UFS (and other filesystems labeling) too: for > > example. 'newfs -L bobs_disk' will cause the device containing it to > > appear as /dev/ufs/bobs_disk. > > > > This approach may be better for removable disks; it'll play better with > > other OSs, for example. > > I simply put > > /dev/da0s1 /PenDrive msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 > > on fstab. After I plug it in, I type > > mount /PenDrive. In KDE, I use Kwikdisk to mount it. > > Mario Lobo > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Sorry for the multiple posts. I have just installed FBSD 7 here on my desktop and I am struggling a bit to recover my kmail configs from my previous 6.2. By the way, I've been using it for 3 days and I must say right way how incredibly improved and smooth multitasking is on 7 !! Mario Lobo _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
