Christian Laursen
2009-Dec-28 20:36 UTC
A script that modifies /etc/fstab to mount devices via glabel
Hi there, I wrote a script that modifies fstab so that UFS filesystems are mounted via their UFS IDs and swap partitions are labeled with glabel in order to access them that way. It works for me on at least FreeBSD 7.2 and 8.0. Use at your own risk. For swap devices it is neccesary to label the device in order to recognize it later and that requires that swap is turned off briefly. The script requires perl to run. The script is here: http://borderworlds.dk/utils/fstab-glabel.pl Feel free to use it if you find it useful. -- Christian Laursen
Pieter de Goeje
2009-Dec-29 00:11 UTC
A script that modifies /etc/fstab to mount devices via glabel
On Monday 28 December 2009 21:17:41 Christian Laursen wrote:> Hi there, > > I wrote a script that modifies fstab so that UFS filesystems are mounted > via their UFS IDs and swap partitions are labeled with glabel in order > to access them that way. > > It works for me on at least FreeBSD 7.2 and 8.0. Use at your own risk. > > For swap devices it is neccesary to label the device in order to > recognize it later and that requires that swap is turned off briefly. > > The script requires perl to run. > > The script is here: > http://borderworlds.dk/utils/fstab-glabel.pl > > Feel free to use it if you find it useful.Works as advertised, thank you! It is probably faster to extract the label from glabel status -s <node> instead of using dumpfs though. - Pieter