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Re: wedge device to name



manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus) writes:

>But since almost all commands do the NAME=label to /dev/device translation,
>you can take NAME=label as a device path.

Only some NetBSD commands do. Most are old-fashioned and want file paths
to deal with, and that's where the current mount output may come handy.

There's nothing against an option making mount or df print wedge names
and people can just use aliases in their profile.

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