Questions re: disklabel for external USB drives

[Jerry McAllister]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:34:59PM +0100, Joerg Pernfuss wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:17:29 -0500
> Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > > Is there an easy way to force the device to work as something like:
> > > 
> > > /dev/da1s1d
> > > 
> > > on all of the servers, including ones that do not already have a
> > > SCSI disk subsystem and existing /dev/da0 devices?
> > 
> > I think, in FreeBSD SCSI device stuff, you can force it to be
> > something, but I have never done it and don't know how - and since
> > it doesn't matter, don't see the reason to try.
> 
> A imho better solution is to load the geom_label class.
> Then either give the device itself a label:
> 	da3s1d -> label/usbstick42s1d
> or set the UFS Label field of the filesystems via 'tunefs -L',
> this will give you for example
> 	da5s1a -> ufs/ustick5data
> 	da5s1d -> ufs/ustick5keys
> 
> or whatever you set the label to, obviously. If geom_label is loaded,
> you have unique device names on all servers (if you don't mix things
> up when you label them).

OK.   But, that really sounds like more work than just making your
fstab file relevant to the machine it is on and not worrying about
the rest.

////jerry

> 
> Regards,
> 	Joerg
> 
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