Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:02:30 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shellscript conditional to check for external disk Message-ID: <20080622140230.666f4afc@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080622091315.GA43950@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <200806212144.09925.heroh@gmx.de> <20080621224731.GA26997@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20080622002207.7fc1f697@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20080622091315.GA43950@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:13:15 +0200 Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:22:07AM +0100, RW wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:47:31 +0200 > > Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > > > > > Use glabel(8) to give the device an unique label. There is no > > > telling which device /dev/da0s1d is pointing to! After labeling > > > you can check for /dev/<fstype>/<yourlabel>, which should be > > > unique. > > > > I think that should be: > > > > /dev/label/<yourlabel> > > That is only for non-filesystem labels, according to glabel(8): > > "This class also provides volume label detection for file > systems. Those labels cannot be set with glabel, but must be set > with the appropriate file system utility, > ... > Non file-system labels are created in the directory /dev/label/." but you did write: "Use glabel(8) to give the device an unique label", so it would be a non-filesystem label.
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