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Date:      Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:39:54 -0600
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Subject:   Re: Like to commit my diskprep
Message-ID:  <20001031163953.B18974@hamlet.nectar.com>
In-Reply-To: <14675.973021175@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:39:35PM %2B0100
References:  <XFMail.001031113118.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <14675.973021175@critter>

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On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:39:35PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> The magic "Hmm, I'll try sticking /dev in front" DWIM code is
> bad IMO.

I always had the impression that the utilities that took a bare name
like da0s1 did so in part to save the user from figuring out whether
/dev/da0s1 or /dev/rda0s1 was appropriate.  That distinction is gone
now.
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org


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