From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 22 22:56:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 562E837C35B for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:56:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id AAA06650; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:55:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-87.max1.wa.cyberlynk.net(207.227.118.87) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma006647; Thu Mar 23 00:55:41 2000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.20000323002543.00a99c00@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:55:29 -0600 To: Vivek Khera From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <14553.22411.265795.429126@onceler.kcilink.com> References: <200003222301.QAA34410@harmony.village.org> <14552.57732.739752.665443@onceler.kcilink.com> <4.3.2.20000321160347.00ad9b20@207.227.119.2> <38D50DBC.88FA8E4D@glue.umd.edu> <38D3AB72.366D851D@glue.umd.edu> <200003152159.OAA89926@harmony.village.org> <38D03E64.3D17FC34@glue.umd.edu> <200003190433.VAA04863@harmony.village.org> <200003212255.PAA26291@harmony.village.org> <200003222301.QAA34410@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 06:30 PM 3/22/00 -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: >I guess I don't see how to use, eg, da0a without being "dangerously >dedicated". When I did my install of FBSD 3.3, the partitioning >process asked if I was sharing the disk or not. I said no, so it took >over the entire disk, but I still get the long-sliced names like >/dev/wd0s1a rather than the /dev/wd0a I'd expect since there is only >one slice on the whole disk. My zip drive uses /dev/da0a after I did >a newfs on it, though. In fstab you could use wd0a rather than wd0s1a. Is it DD, no. Does it work, yes. Is doing so a good idea, not sure. Just dropped the s1 part from every device in fstab and rebooted with no problem. Not having to 'sh MAKEDEV wds1a' when updating /dev (or adding it to MAKEDEV.local) is about the only advantage, but that doesn't help much since vinum is using the slice versions. Maybe it could use the non-slice versions, but don't care to try at this moment. Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message