disk labels (was: Re: fixating USB Storage)

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Wed Feb 29 15:33:19 UTC 2012


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.

	Respectfully,


					Robert Huff




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