From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Oct 15 21:03:32 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4736EC13744 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2016 21:03:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jasoncwells@fastmail.com) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1FAA5C2 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2016 21:03:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jasoncwells@fastmail.com) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9813020505 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2016 17:03:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 15 Oct 2016 17:03:25 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.com; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:message-id :mime-version:subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=rlg wEt96JrTjeOB6UDRZP2QkuXw=; b=KMC3W4Fba8Peg4Z2HQ+gp/YCxNbsd/7Y+fO +HxtO9HBk/SXzQxoLWs5r6LfuyT2+A4gNyRdvIA42DqKEEAx71XoawBpXbNHXNMX bzCZQ2H5mH5hFKpl598VYQNUq9gq+iuzVe5Z2WGtM25S1e8tTZGxGhgMWo6IfFMS +I5nuxMw= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:message-id:mime-version:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=rlgwEt96JrTjeOB6UDRZP2QkuXw=; b=XcSjB OboC5FEVVe/fZ4sTq2ceAW+jzQmm95+kMDPSdSh1DegyVNMnXycfXfHNWAKW7qig DZvnOdJEbODd5KJTVTwSUwCg8AzPz7KDMbF9YiQTkSoDr7ZxXXNrUuK0RS2Xa2Rm br5zoKYHpI0N8d7Ufp5S6qQnbHy13mt/Agscmg= X-Sasl-enc: OwYU6qQDEs020NlC45ENrUlr5h/2Gxp6eW5f5epOYQ6g 1476565405 Received: from [192.168.1.195] (174-31-141-127.tukw.qwest.net [174.31.141.127]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2E446CC07B for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2016 17:03:25 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Jason C. Wells" Subject: Filesystem Label Ambiguity Message-ID: Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 14:03:23 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 21:03:32 -0000 Let's say I have three disks and each of them has a partition labelled "volume3" i.e. /dev/ufs/volume3. How can I determine which of those is currently mounted? How does the system determine which of those to mount at boot time? Regards, Jason C. Wells