From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 5:33:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 444C837B479; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 05:33:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id FAA13867; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 05:33:13 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda13865; Mon Nov 20 05:33:10 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAKDX4W12187; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 05:33:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdY12185; Mon Nov 20 05:32:33 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAKDWTB68389; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 05:32:29 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011201332.eAKDWTB68389@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdZ68385; Mon Nov 20 05:31:56 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: Warner Losh , "David O'Brien" Cc: Zero Sum , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:55:51 MST." <200011200855.BAA20585@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 05:31:56 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200011200855.BAA20585@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: > In message <00112018421905.61849@shalimar.net.au> Zero Sum writes: > : Does this allow multiple partitions on a zip? > > Yes, but fdisk is awkward to use for editing. How about fdisk -e in similar vein as disklabel -e? As the PC architecture requires, just use an fdisk partition rather than a disklabel slice (slices are what UNIX vendors call them). For that matter I'd be happy if we removed disklabel from the picture entirely. I think that should be our goal. The architecture requires an fdisk label and disklabel is redundant. It seems like a no-brainer to me, just remove support for disklabel entirely. Simple and end of argument. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message