Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 01:22:49 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, imp@village.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting other people's disks? Message-ID: <199705031522.BAA11347@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>But the slice code is ignoring the entire disk. Since the disklabel It only ignores it if it is so misplaced that it can't find it (which is not the case where since you got warnings) or if there are no valid partitions in it. >from OpenBSD is absolute for the entire disk, and since the c >partition is the entire disk, all the interesting slices are being >ignored. This doesn't follow: a) the c partition probably isn't for the whole disk in NetBSD. In systems derived from 386BSD, the d partition was for the whole disk. b) interesting slices should be in other, erm, slices. Bruce
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