d/freebsd-nq
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Document the diskid automatic label class.

Browse Source 
While there, also document the glabel "native" labels and explain why
there are additional nodes created for nested GEOM classes.

Reminded by:	jmg
This commit is contained in:
Ivan Voras 2014-06-02 15:05:25 +00:00
parent 4c524a4287
commit e74d21571f
1 changed files with 20 additions and 2 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

22
sbin/geom/class/label/glabel.8
View File

@ -130,8 +130,26 @@ GPT UUIDs (directory
.Pa /dev/gptid/ ) .
.El
.Pp
Generic labels are created in the directory
.Pa /dev/label/ .
Generic disk ID strings are exported as labels in the format
.Pa /dev/diskid/GEOM_CLASS-ident
e.g.
.Pa /dev/diskid/DISK-6QG3Z026 .
.Pp
Generic labels created and managed solely by
.Xr glabel 8
are created in the
.Pa /dev/label/
directory.
.Pp
Note that for all label types, nested GEOM classes will cause additional
device nodes to be created, with context-specific data appended to their
names. E.g. for every node like
.Pa /dev/label/bigdisk
there will be additional entries for any partitions which the device
contains, like
.Pa /dev/label/bigdiskp1
and
.Pa /dev/label/bigdiskp1a .
.Pp
The first argument to
.Nm