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

Thanks

tunefs -L foo it is, then.

Bill Dudley
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 4:33 PM Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>