Bug 275960

Summary:

The "Partition Editor" dialog in BSDINSTALL(8) should list hard drive identifiers

Product:

Base System

Reporter:

Yuri Victorovich <yuri>

Component:

misc

Assignee:

freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>

Status:

New ---

Severity:

Affects Only Me

CC:

asiciliano, emaste

Priority:

---

Version:

14.0-STABLE

Hardware:

Any

OS:

Any

Attachments:

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Description Yuri Victorovich freebsd_committer

2023-12-27 09:33:12 UTC

Created attachment 247283 [details]
screenshot.png

The "Partition Editor" dialog only shows device names and sizes.

In cases when the system has many devices, especially of the same size - it might be difficult to choose the device.

This script:
> grep -E 'ada[0-9]' /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep ": <"

lists hard drives with identifiers, like "<INTEL SSDSC2BF180A4H LH6i>".

I am suggesting that the "Partition Editor" dialog is improved in 2 ways:
1. It should list hard drive identifiers in addition to device names and sizes
2. The missing word should be fixed, see the question mark on the screenshot.

Comment 1 Yuri Victorovich freebsd_committer

2023-12-28 20:40:35 UTC

To be precise, these 2 fields should be present for each listed hard drive:
1. Model number
2. Serial number

This script, for example, lists both:
> $ grep -E 'ada[0-9]' /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep -E ": <|Serial"

If someone would have several disks of the same model, only serial numbers would be different between them.