Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:38:50 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mounting swap partition Message-ID: <CAN6yY1vweRkGdLDx=T2E=NntrSZj=vzcfqtVvc%2BJW_cwxXKTFA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <548F658A.7030306@quip.cz> References: <CAP7y58OKFZmCRiJACmBzptDtp58A1L16LJeUwKSm5tEnJtAx3w@mail.gmail.com> <548F071D.2000700@multiplay.co.uk> <548F115D.3080609@gmail.com> <CAN6yY1u2xTw39y0HDLOabOKoB2gUH8jovN4yC8dz4sWSbRo2Lg@mail.gmail.com> <548F658A.7030306@quip.cz>
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote: > Kevin Oberman wrote on 12/15/2014 23:11: > > While this works, I find it best to leave gpt in place and then use gpart >> to label all partitions (except swap which does not support it) and use >> glabel to label swap. >> Now everything is named and there should never be any confusion. >> > > Best ... and you can never attach another disk with the same labels (same > naming scheme, probably your disk from another computer for recovery). > > Miroslav Lachman > > True. I label my backup media with "bak" appended to the label. This does prevent confusing the original with the backup, but does not work with dd(1) for the entire disk. Since I don't do this for my backups, that is not an issue. And, thanks, Warren for catching my faux pas. I was remembering the old UFS labels. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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