labels and layout

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:29:50PM +0100, Indigo wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>  heres a batch of question:
> 
> Im looking for a way to mount disks by label instead of device. Im on 6.2  
> and I can't use ZFS until it gets released.
> I saw that tunefs and newfs have some label option - but I assumed it's  
> not the kind of label I want because no one is using it.
> 
> An example with AdvFS (Tru64):
> # mount
> root_domain#root on / type advfs (rw)
> /proc on /proc type procfs (rw)
> usr_domain#usr on /usr type advfs (rw)
> var_domain#var on /var type advfs (rw)
> 
> I just think it's stupid to edit fstab every time Im swapping things  
> inside the box - I think it's needless.

ufs labels as set by tunefs and newfs work fine as long as your load the
geom_label module.  I'm honestly not sure what it isn't in GENERIC.
It's really useful.  You can also use glabel labels for your swap
partitions.

-- Brooks
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