From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Oct 1 3:14:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D915637B503; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 03:14:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 13fg8o-0007ig-00; Sun, 01 Oct 2000 10:14:43 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e91A8rZ11405; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 12:08:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 12:08:53 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Greg Lehey Cc: Terry Lambert , "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , Andre Albsmeier , Marc Tardif , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ccd with other filesystems Message-ID: <20001001120853.A11275@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20001001114540.G43885@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200010010228.TAA18618@usr05.primenet.com> <20001001120453.I43885@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20001001120453.I43885@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 12:04:53PM +0930 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 12:04:53PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 1 October 2000 at 2:28:09 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Greg Writes: snip > >> I think this is a bug in newfs. It should only create file systems on > >> partitions of type 4.2BSD. Does anybody disagree? Otherwise I'll fix > >> it. > > > > I have several systems, where the entirety of the disk (the "c" > > partition) is mounted as a single file system. > > You can do it, but it's not a good idea. I'd like to see a good > reason for doing this. This discussion seems to occur more often. I, for one, would be interested to know what is so bad in using 'c' for a filesystem. Been doing it for years now, never had any problems. After all, 'c' is just the whole disk. I don't see the point in maken e.g. 'f' de whole disk and using that one. If the reason is only because 'c' overlaps all other partitions: there is no substitute for 'checking before doing' newfs. In short: please clarify. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message