diskid documentation

Adam McDougall mcdouga9 at egr.msu.edu
Sun Jun 1 21:32:13 UTC 2014


On 06/01/2014 10:17, Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 09:41 -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to track down the documentation for the /dev/diskid/blah
>> device nodes. Is there a man page?
>>
>> It appears that this is a current-only thing, so I'm asking here? (At
>> least, none of my 9.x or 10.x machines have /dev/diskid.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ==ml
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> I'm afraid not.  In this case sys/geom/label/g_label_disk_ident.c *is*
> the documentation.
> 
> sean
> 
> bcc current@
> cc  geom@
> 

Also, I believe it is only in 10.0-RELEASE and higher.  Even if your
kernel supports it, /dev/diskid will not exist if no hardware is found
with supported strings (tested in a VM just now).


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