Use partition created with gpart with no label in fstab

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Hi,

If I've partitioned my drive using the following commands

Code: 
gpart add -s 512K -t freebsd-boot da0
gpart add -s 10G -t freebsd-swap da0
gpart add -t freebsd-zfs da0

Can I add the second partition as swap in fstab without it having a label?
 
Yes, you can add second partition as swap in fstab without if having a label. The beauty in using a file system label or the glabel command. Is when you add a new disk to your system and what was da0, becomes da2 or da5, because of cable changes or BIOS disk recogition order. Your file /etc/fstab now with old data confuses booting with your new disks installed.

Some of these label names are carried over from the 'file label' name and not the given 'glabel' name in the listings above.
https://www.ithands-on.com/2020/10/freebsd-101-disk-labels.html BEST WEB PAGE about glabel

https://people.freebsd.org/~trhodes/doc/handbook/geom-glabel.html

https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/doc/handbook/geom-glabel.html

https://flylib.com/books/en/3.326.1.183/1/

Use a GPT /dev/diskid name to select the "drive" not /dev/da1p2​

sudo glabel label -v swap_unirex_244g /dev/diskid/DISK-333457EBD0F2p3
Metadata value stored on /dev/diskid/DISK-333457EBD0F2p3.
Done.
sudo swapctl -A
swapctl: adding /dev/gpt/swap-unirex-224 as swap device

cat /etc/fstab
# Device Mountpoint FStype OptionsDump Pass
# diskid/DISK-333457EBD0F2p3 801fd8c2-7926-11ec-b6e6-0021ccd45dec
# /dev/gptid/801fd8c2-7926-11ec-b6e6-0021ccd45dec
# /dev/label/swap0 none swap sw 0 0

# /dev/label/swap-unirex-224 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/gpt/swap-unirex-224 none swap sw 0 0

procfs /proc procfs rw 00
linprocfs /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 00
tmpfs /compat/linux/dev/shm tmpfs rw,mode=1777 0 0
linsysfs /compat/linux/sys linsysfs rw 0 0
fdesc /dev/fd fdescfs rw 0 0

I get confused about which label goes with which partition. So here are commands to use for finding information.

gpart status
gpart show
gpart show -l
gpart list
glabel list

See what labels exist in which directories:
ls -l /dev/gpt /dev/gptid /dev/diskid /dev/label


Only when a partition is unmounted can you assign a label with glabel command
glabel label -v rootfs_unirex_244g /dev/diskid/DISK-333457EBD0F2p2

So the answer is to Glabel your GPT UUID external USB 3.0 SSD drive, Next use that as the first or 2nd line in the /etc/fstab file to name your SWAP Partition
/dev/label/swap-unirex-224 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/gpt/swap-unirex-224 none swap sw 0 0


swapon -aL to turn the swap on for all swap partitions listed in the file /etc/fstab

swapinfo -m will tell you how much of your swap space is used in megabytes.
 
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