Name/label/id metadata: how do I make it go away
Chris Stankevitz
chris at stankevitz.com
Tue Sep 22 19:31:02 UTC 2015
On 9/22/15 7:42 AM, Warren Block wrote:
> ZFS on bare devices uses an EFI label that is similar or related to GPT.
> Those might be detected and displayed even without GPT, but I'm not sure.
Thank you. I'm using google to figure out what FreeBSD utility will
allow me to query the EFI label. After I find that I'll read the man
page. Then I'll use the tool to see if I can read/write the label.
> "glabel" is both a command that creates manual labels and a GEOM class
> that creates the entries in /dev when device labels of all types are
> found. Stopping the label class stops the display of all labels.
> glabel(8) is worth the read.
Got it, thank you. Reading glabel(8) now.
Chris
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