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Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/geom')
-rw-r--r-- | sbin/geom/class/label/glabel.8 | 22 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/geom/class/label/glabel.8 b/sbin/geom/class/label/glabel.8 index c1c7bc4..282f85c 100644 --- a/sbin/geom/class/label/glabel.8 +++ b/sbin/geom/class/label/glabel.8 @@ -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 |