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I'm trying to create a NetBSD image to be used on my opennebula cloud, and for its contextualization I need to look for a disk labeled "CONTEXT", in fact it is a cdrom, usually on debian I would look for it on /dev/disk/by-label, but in NetBSD the story seems to be different, and I tried to use disklabel but I have found only the "fictitious" label on the cdrom: NetBSDImage# disklabel /dev/cd0 # /dev/cd0d: type: ATAPI disk: iso partition label: fictitious flags: removable bytes/sector: 2048 sectors/track: 100 tracks/cylinder: 1 sectors/cylinder: 100 cylinders: 2 total sectors: 181 rpm: 300 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # microseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds drivedata: 0

4 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs] a: 181 0 ISO9660 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1*) d: 181 0 UDF # (Cyl. 0 - 1*) disklabel: boot block size 0 disklabel: super block size 0 disklabel: partitions a and d overlap

I do not understand how can I do the same on NetBSD, checking if there is any disk named "CONTEXT" to mount it. The plan B is just to mount the cdrom if it is available and check if there is a file called context.sh but I would prefer to do it the right way, by checking the disk name.

Diego Marciano
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You can use the file(1) command on the CD-ROM device.

For example, I have a NetBSD 7 iso in my CD-ROM drive:

$ sudo file -s /dev/cd0d
/dev/cd0d: # ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'NETBSD_70_BETA' (bootable)

The Volume ID here is 'NETBSD_70_BETA'

You can also install isoinfo from pkgsrc (sysutils/cdrtools) and sed/grep the data you need:

$ sudo isoinfo -d -i /dev/cd0d
CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format
System id: NetBSD
Volume id: NETBSD_70_BETA
Volume set id: 
Publisher id: THE_NETBSD_PROJECT
...

More info can be found in the wiki.

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