Accessing disks via their serial numbers.

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:36:07AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 June 2006 16:11, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 06:43:19PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > I wrote this twice already in this thread, but let me write it again.
> > File systems are not the whole world. For example. I've a disk ad0.
> > I configured gbde(4) on top of it. I create file system on top of
> > ad0.bde. Now, let's assume I implemented shrinkfs(8) as you suggested,
> > how can I shrink gbde(4) provider?
> 
> If you want a label you should label it before gbde(4).  This is similar to 
> the fact that you can't retroactively add a gmirror under the gbde slice 
> either.

That's right. And this is how I do it. Unfortunately this is not always
the case. First of all, sysinstall doesn't have support for configuring
things like gbde/gmirror (which of course can be changed) or you may
simply not expect that you will need labels on your disks when you
install the system...

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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