Re: Mount disks by label

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 08 Sep 2014, Diego M. wrote:
> I was searching the whole day and I simply cannot find a clear 
> answer, is there any way to mount disks/partitions using labels 
> on NetBSD?

If you kernel uses wedges (using the kernel options documented 
in the dk(4) man page), then you can use syntax like NAME=xxx in 
/etc/fstab (see the fstab(5) man page).  Wedges are not yet well 
integrated.

> For example, on debian I would look for it on 
> /dev/disk/by-label, particularly I'm looking for a disks labeled 
> as "CONTEXT", and if it exists I have to mount it somewhere to 
> take the context.sh file from it.

I think there are custom scripts you can hook into devpubd to get 
something like /dev/disk/by-label, but it's not standard.

--apb (Alan Barrett)