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Date:      Sat, 4 Jun 2011 13:13:26 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where's my disk?
Message-ID:  <20110604131326.74141ad8@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110604104812.dfbf2888.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <4DE9ED56.9020504@locolomo.org> <20110604104812.dfbf2888.freebsd@edvax.de>

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On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 10:48:12 +0200
Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:

> On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:31:18 +0200, Erik N=F8rgaard
> <norgaard@locolomo.org> wrote:
> > The first problem is that I have no idea how my disk will be
> > recognized, now the root partition is on /dev/ad6s1a.
>=20
> A good approach is to apply a label or use the UFSID of
> the partitions (which don't depend on controller position)
> instead of the device names.

Additionally do a swapoff and use "glabel label" to label any swap
partitions. Don't forget to update fstab before doing a swapon or
rebooting or you might overwrite the label.=20



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