part-by-label: an additional benefit

Remember the commit that autocreates human-readable disk device names under /dev?  (Here’s a reminder.)  It’s now in 5.4 – technically, since 5.4.2.  Anyway, it will automatically identify the root USB disk when you boot from a USB .img file, so you no longer have to guess which /dev/daX file it was – usually da8 but sometimes you got a surprise instead.

Lazy Reading for 2019/05/26

Accidental theme of the week: old-school non-UNIX operating systems.

 

In Other BSDs for 2019/05/25

Watch for post-BSDCan slides and material and ideas to show up in the next few weeks.

 

Lazy Reading for 2019/05/19

Cobbled together early cause I have an unexpectedly busy weekend, so you are getting a straight dump of everything pending I had in RSS, Thursday night.

In Other BSDs for 2019/05/18

I have more links than I expected.