adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

[Adam Vande More]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Steve Franks <bahamasfranks at gmail.com>wrote:

> Just curious, having read the handbook section talking about freebsd
> going straight to the hardware and skipping the bios for disk
> numbering, why then, if I stick a sata disk in 'sata0' on the
> motherboard, does it come up as ad0, but if I add a second disk in
> 'sata1' or 'pata0', on the next boot, I have no ad0, but ad4 and ad6?
> This seems to be the case with every mobo I've owned in the last 2
> years from a variety of mfr's.  Is there a way around this?  I don't
> care what it comes out as, as long as it stays put...  Since I have
> the only fbsd system at work, I tend to format alot of funky drives
> for people, and it gets anoying having to swap fstab's every time...
>
> Steve
>

Use glabel, then you can used the same fstab across disk swaps/machinces

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Adam Vande More