Other Adding new disk renames devices

[k.jacker]

I am going to reboot into single user mode and use gpart to modify the labels to see how that goes.

You don't have to go to single user mode. You can do that on mounted disks.

 

[Sevendogsbsd]

Ah, too late, but it still didn't work. I have the appropriate labels, but no corresponding directories under /dev. Odd indeed but certainly not critical - I like the idea of labels in case I decide to play drive shuffle...

 

[Phishfry]

Drive roulette or drive lottery is how I have seen it described in my reading.
I had an array of da0-da7 and swapped in a new drive and it became da8.
Very common refrain going back many many years.

 

[Sevendogsbsd]

Really not a big deal - this is a desktop and I have 2 SSDs which will probably never move, but I wanted to learn how to do this in FreeBSD so thought I would try.

 

[Phishfry]

Now that I am engulfed in storage I found i necessary to do something.
I like the straight up approach of devices.hints because I have every drive cable with markings and each bay and each sled.
Looking for uniformity. So now I know that a cable marked da0 is going to be da0 in software.
Seriously I think diskid should be called an alias and partition labels called labels. Too many things considered labels.

 

[phoenix]

OK, so how do I change this? I assume then that these instructions Labeling were not appropriate for my set up?

Edit fstab to use the paths to the labels and reboot. Simple as that.

If you boot from a LiveCD, so nothing gets mounted, you'll be able to see all the different labels.