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Date:      Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:00:32 +0400
From:      Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
To:        "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>
Cc:        scottl@freebsd.org, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kamigishi Rei <spambox@haruhiism.net>
Subject:   Re: RFC: ATA to CAM integration patch
Message-ID:  <86hby010jj.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <e71790db0906280650w269d21b7y5f1f78b039fcfccb@mail.gmail.com> (Carlos A. M. dos Santos's message of "Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:50:31 -0300")
References:  <4A4517BE.9040504@FreeBSD.org> <20090627141412.GN31709@acme.spoerlein.net> <4A462A7A.20005@haruhiism.net> <200906280847.59316.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <e71790db0906280650w269d21b7y5f1f78b039fcfccb@mail.gmail.com>

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"Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Daniel O'Connor<doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote:
> [...]
>> 7.2 has UFSID in GENERIC so you can mount your disks that way which is
>> non-ambiguous.
>>
>> Unfortunately you can't specify swap this way because it has no ID, I
>> don't know how hard it would be to add such a thing (which would
>> require a mkswap or somesuch, and modification to the dump & swap
>> code..)
>
> You can use glabel to add a label to the raw swap partition. I use to
> have a line containing
>
> 	/dev/label/BSDSWAP	none	swap	sw	0 0
>
> in /etc/fstab.

Or you can use GPT-specific labels, as well. They would look like

/dev/gpt/swap1
/dev/gptid/adec0ea7-642e-11de-85dc-000476911739



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