renaming GEOM device name?

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 5 21:59:53 UTC 2006


On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 02:13:02PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
+> A quick search at google and scan though geom and gconcat man pages I 
+> didn't see any reference to renaming the device name.
+> 
+> I have /dev/gconcat/WHATEVER. "gconcat status" shows it is up and its 
+> component.
+> 
+> What is the procedure for renaming this to /dev/gconcat/SOMETHING? I don't 
+> want to lose the data on it, but I can turn it off.

You may just use 'label' subcommand once again. Be sure to keep previous
providers order. The 'list' subcommand should show their numbers.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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