Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

Mario Lobo mlobo at digiart.art.br
Mon Jan 21 09:15:45 PST 2008


On Monday 21 January 2008 14:05:04 Mike Bristow wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> > >> It is possible, but not as daX. Use the glabel(8) utility to label
> > >> your disks. They will show up as /dev/label/<yourlabel>
> >
> > On 7.0-PRERELEASE, 'options GEOM_LABEL' is built into of the GENERIC
> > kernel, so it shouldn't be necessary there.
>
> Note that you can use UFS (and other filesystems labeling) too:  for
> example. 'newfs -L bobs_disk' will cause the device containing it to appear
> as /dev/ufs/bobs_disk.
>
> This approach may be better for removable disks; it'll play better with
> other OSs, for example.

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