UUID in fstab.

[varanasi sainath]

Thanks for the support.

I want to use the uuid's found using sysctl -a in fstab.
/dev/gptid/ has only uuid for boot partition.

Cheers
Sainath


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> /dev/gptid/$UID
>
> maybe what you are looking for?
>
> Warner
>
> On Aug 21, 2013, at 12:16 AM, varanasi sainath wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > How to find UUID's for Disk volumes.
> >
> > I have used sysctl -a | grep uuid and was able to find
> > <type>freebsd-swap</type>
> > <rawuuid>b55ff220-dcdd-11e2-a324-00155d55b20c</rawuuid>
> >
> > <type>freebsd-ufs</type>
> > <rawuuid>b55762fc-dcdd-11e2-a324-00155d55b20c</rawuuid>
> >
> > are these the corresponding UUID's for swap and ufs.
> >
> > I din't find /dev/ufsid folder to get the UUID's
> >
> > I have used glabel and was able to create labels, system boots well,
> > everything works fine but I don't want to use labels (operating
> constraint:
> > to create labels I have to boot into single user mode, is there a way to
> > create labels on mounted partitions (I hope not)).
> >
> > I found gptid folder which has boot UUID can this be used?
> >
> > How to use UUID's in fstab?
> >
> > I have tried using
> > # Device                        Mountpoint        FStype  Options Dump
> > Pass#
> > uuid=b55762fc-dcdd-11e2-a324-00155d55b20c  /  ufs  rw 1 1
> >
> > that din't work.
> >
> > I found (from a post) /dev/ufsid/<uuid> should be used in fstab but I
> don't
> > see ufsid in /dev. Do we need to create this or does the system does it?
> >
> > Note:
> > Using FreeBSD 9.1. created partitions using the guided partition tool.
> >
> > Reason: using a SCSI storage driver which changes the drive name
> > accordingly but freebsd installer (boot) is unable to find the drives
> which
> > results in boot failure.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sainath.*
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