From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Feb 15 19:14:48 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 229AF2454E8 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2020 19:14:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass Class 2 CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48Kg123pNYz4dWS for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2020 19:14:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([178.12.119.79]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue012 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 1McIYO-1jbIK720VQ-00chOe; Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:14:43 +0100 Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:14:43 +0100 From: Polytropon To: RW Cc: RW via freebsd-questions Subject: Re: some questions about disk partitioning and filesystems and booting Message-Id: <20200215201443.0339bf06.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20200215143057.15c1198a@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20200213150229.GC14144@bastion.zyxst.net> <091dd3af-7b99-267f-7d04-541b6d651926@holgerdanske.com> <20200215143057.15c1198a@gumby.homeunix.com> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:zdaL9os95yyfUJH74+YqH28LH4ZB00jiWinHgqrim6nS+DEmFsX A9muxS7VitL5XEcM+8/OENqJlC2V2ePbB1wWtSPpfRO5L55yAOKiZ3wu+4bRJYsqfzdwWXm cRxpAb7sqi6xTtT1Ee/Bq5wafWVNrx1mvKWXZKoi4lYdDJbYYvj3szBStJ9rnplhWuuYO7A SWiUviGLIYIo02/vmPxXA== X-Spam-Flag: NO X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:dsDKNr/Q3ek=:VhmevyqT+6rZHRXMDETtL1 xyf2Cf3nXa+xJYUhvSdxGe2GVZ66Et2epc58gsqM0rcX77quBqlrBh1qavbIgvpQc3hVnYrAV 4Qd/ARtXde8MhJMkvMlq++Mh4616gxeULsMqIr2h8B49VptqxJLGCPiUUBMfSK7YpuckpmbAj 1pYEK39SZan6mq+vZ6nmS6bGozBFTOYZobK9/JibidI7KlHkgnIq0CRDJyd8FzBMY2G6FbMgF GmdwXwV1YoHuu/kaYmkbrxb5EJ7vdgL+cMcmpwi+HEwi66h9B36xbGztZLr8+rHs9ZZ5mbSqi ujfTtIPptO9Y2AJqZ4qjYASR3aSqY3fzg9+GWYaNiIOMGWE6Y7dE6TO1LhhFHLM4VN5N7RuYJ 6uTrcc1BhRcdCDYNP/qRjAn5j8ETwSF0Yq1Oo/bonFM0PuwLrqU1vD75Rw5BNd2I6lpEvhtC/ 7e2ANqNkhk0arhoaVMsmRxPOj9LmYa/KXYYjH+0QhyreFgDtpxiCAtNjJJeL8SWBJ7a9j+k2T WlzosrtPW1qRxGyJkvzQtnivqhH1lb6UBgl5dudi540IGGoGm8ozfRnQNfoyL7tG2ECMosuMO 9wfMQDquWLxEeiIkG+okxTqWO9WNeQPkLdzB0wxJUEqeobaS5fHAYVzPKRAQ8+ASVX0jr7+N9 hoCCQEz0HU7tgKzGlwt4DVX8v+XakvBOeZB4bqc3YTuV1rTFNSHJNHHTHeTkhNoFkBxYG/pxS KY5Q/aU1l/DuuauVBL2mpOxyZtonWgUQGlMiRZJaYA03T/K8LHKWE8ERQPvIssQDMIzjlS5c5 KhG1ahi6ycMAJE6sZ1ULJvdpdGbkr7gmp9KpGneIGvMmEUwvUOzzmAWJHwoE90oAOQUf+zM X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 48Kg123pNYz4dWS X-Spamd-Bar: ++++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd@edvax.de has no SPF policy when checking 212.227.126.133) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd@edvax.de X-Spamd-Result: default: False [4.83 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[freebsd@edvax.de]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[googlemail.com]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:8560, ipnet:212.227.0.0/16, country:DE]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[79.119.12.178.khpj7ygk5idzvmvt5x4ziurxhy.zen.dq.spamhaus.net : 127.0.0.11]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; REPLYTO_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[edvax.de]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.98)[0.983,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(1.00)[0.996,0]; MID_CONTAINS_FROM(1.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[133.126.227.212.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; IP_SCORE(0.45)[ip: (1.19), ipnet: 212.227.0.0/16(-1.12), asn: 8560(2.21), country: DE(-0.02)] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 19:14:48 -0000 On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:30:57 +0000, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:08:27 -0800 > David Christensen wrote: > > > > The most obvious downside is that MBR does not support labels. So, > > the FreeBSD boot system uses device node names. This means I have to > > ensure that the system drive is always ada0 > > You can use glabel to label the drive, or label the > individual partitions. Actually, there are several possible methods for labeling: 1. glabel (GEOM label) example: /dev/label/usr 2. tunefs label (UFS permanent label) example: /dev/ufs/usr 3. UFS-ID example: /dev/ufsid/486b6fc16926168e Sources: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-glabel.html http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/labels.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...