Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:55:35 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, "bsalinux@gmail.com" <bsalinux@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fixating USB Storage Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202290751320.79170@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20302.11068.426551.17422@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <CAB3Sx6evad7VOWoK3AHF6DW0y0k6ZgpBwPUMSu7Ag8-dQqSJTw@mail.gmail.com> <201202040953.19456.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <CABfwSFrW%2BwSacq3arxds30qs4LnkdYXkfGV0MZ7Em0fPu7P=Mg@mail.gmail.com> <201202041433.55000.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <CAB3Sx6dFKweDSAjbah2TXX6WWUV0eN-dgix79XziBKXHy0REaQ@mail.gmail.com> <20120228173042.218144e7.freebsd@edvax.de> <20302.11068.426551.17422@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Robert Huff wrote: > > Polytropon writes: > >> Label the drives and use labels instead of device names. >> >> Get some inspiration from Warren's excellent article here: >> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html > > Good piece, but it doesn't explicitly cover one case and "man" > provides no example. > I have a disk - ad1 - with a partition - p2 - that was > (obviously) created by gpart ... but no label was attached. > Can I add a label to that partition later? "man gpart" only > shows a label being added when the partition is created, (untested) # gpart modify -i 2 -l mylabel ada0 There's also http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/labels.html , which talks about filesystem labels. UFS labels can be added later with tunefs(8). I really need to do a combined article that covers all the different types of labels. It's on the list.
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