Re: add in SATA card -- ada0 "moves" to ad1, breaking the boot process ?

On 17/07/2024 20:58, William Dudley wrote:
> How do I prevent the drive names from changing?  Or can't I?
> 

One of the following?

* glabel(8) for gpart(8) disk partitions

* tunefs(8) can add a label to UFS2 filesytems

In either case a disk device using the label will appear under /dev, and 
you can use that in fstab(5)

You might already have labels on your drive partitions: the FreeBSD 
installer creates them by default.  Try `gpart show -l` to see.

Or just use ZFS -- it knows its own drives, no matter what device the OS 
wants to call them.  There's a fun party trick to take out the drives 
containing a ZFS pool, shuffle them around, reinstall and boot up again.

	Cheers,

	Matthew