/dev/ufs

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Jul 14 14:32:00 GMT 2005


In the last episode (Jul 14), Heinrich Rebehn said:
> I am trying to mount disks by label. The glabel(8) manpage suggests:
> 
>            tunefs -L data /dev/da4s1a
>            mount /dev/ufs/data /mnt/data
> 
> I tried that, but i don't see a /dev/ufs at all. Does it have to be
> mounted? If so, how?

Make sure you have the geom_label module loaded, or have "options
GEOM_LABEL" in your kernel config file.  It's also a bit sensitive; if
your filesystem doesn't completely fill the partition it's in, you
won't get a label, so if you have resized partitions and not yet run
growfs it won't show up.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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