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Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:
Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:
@mwl@io.mwl.io  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

Hey #FreeBSD folks!

Ten years ago, disk ID labels (/dev/diskid) were often painfully encoded.

Today, my WD drives show up cleanly. Is that just a WD thing? Do other vendors show up as encoded crud?

If you could look in /dev/diskid and see what you have, I'd appreciate it.

(diskID is disabled in 15, you'd need to uncomment kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0" in /boot/loader.conf)

TLDR: can I now recommend diskID labels as reasonable, or am I just lucky in my hard drives? #sysadmin

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Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:
Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:
@mwl@io.mwl.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

related: does anybody know why #freebsd disabled diskid and gptid at install time?

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