RFC: ATA to CAM integration patch

Carlos A. M. dos Santos unixmania at gmail.com
Sun Jun 28 13:50:34 UTC 2009


On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Daniel O'Connor<doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
[...]
> 7.2 has UFSID in GENERIC so you can mount your disks that way which is
> non-ambiguous.
>
> Unfortunately you can't specify swap this way because it has no ID, I
> don't know how hard it would be to add such a thing (which would
> require a mkswap or somesuch, and modification to the dump & swap
> code..)

You can use glabel to add a label to the raw swap partition. I use to
have a line containing

	/dev/label/BSDSWAP	none	swap	sw	0 0

in /etc/fstab.

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