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Date:      Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:45:39 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Stephen Hocking <stephen.hocking@gmail.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mapping /dev/gptid numbers to /dev/adXpY
Message-ID:  <29AAE187-42EB-4478-985B-DF7DB3EDE67F@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <CA%2BxzKjCOEuLauzSbcb3HAqxVR2D3QuUKWUT=uvoo8xAS9UjMXA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 25/07/2011, at 11:03, Stephen Hocking wrote:
> Now this is all very interesting, but I would like to be able to map
> that back to a /dev/adXpY device entry, so when I offline them I can
> then go to the appropriate physical disk. I thought that gpart show -r
> might help, but the numbers emitted from that don't match up. Looking
> at the major/minor numbers of the devices don't help either. Does
> anyone have an idea?


If you run 'gpart list' you will see a list of device names and UUIDs.

Mapping it by hand is a bit tedious though..

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