Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:15:55 -0300 From: Mario Lobo <mlobo@digiart.art.br> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name Message-ID: <200801211415.56014.> In-Reply-To: <20080121170504.GA73013@cheddar.urgle.com> References: <20080120161831.L62033@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <20080121165551.GB50246@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20080121170504.GA73013@cheddar.urgle.com>
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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. I simply put: /dev/da0s1 /PenDrive msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 in my fstab. After pluging it in, i type mount /PenDrive
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