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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:58:22 UTC
Hey all, I find that the handbook mentions glabel labels, but several other places say don’t use them. I managed to apply a gpt label to my new partition that I created using only “gpart” The handbook mentions glabel labels, and tunefs labels, but says nothing about GPT labels. I’ve seen some more complete posts on the forums (i.e. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-to-label-partitions.64380/) but they still don’t show the full picture of what labels are usable where, by what and which. Is there a good primer people know of of what the various types are, fully, which are supported in fstab, which work with ZFS only, and the like? Or should I just keep on using /dev/daX in fstab? (This only came up, as I’m moving virtual disk images around, and renumbering happens automatically when I delete one from a running vm), so labels are useful in this case.