Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 22:11:42 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.8 disklabel.c Message-ID: <199601231111.WAA18283@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> > The magic sequence is: >> > >> > disklabel -r -w sdX auto >> > disklabel -e sdX >> >> This seems to only work on dangerously dedicated disks, and labelling >> those is easy using standard features: >> >> disklabel /dev/rsdX | >> sed -e s'/interleave: 0$/interleave: 1/' \ >> -e s'/rpm: 0$/rpm: 3600/' \ >> -e s'/^[1-7] partitions/8 partitions/' | >> disklabel -r -R sdX /dev/stdin >> disklabel -e sdX >> >> This gives the same label as auto for the same drives that auto works on. >Of course. But ``disklabel ... auto'' is way more convenient if it >comes to Usenet support. I've simply been tired from singing the same >prayer over and over again... Put it in a shell script named disklabel-auto. If the disklabel manpage is too hard, then another magic feature in it won't help. >I've rather hacked this since it was a ``Frequently Requested Item'', >not since it's the cleanest solution i could ever think of. I'm still >in the hope that somebody feels challenged enough to wrap a nice tool >around libdisk for adding a new disk with a better user-interaction. >disklabel ... auto is only intended for people who do already know how >to use disklabel(8), just to save them the dirty work. I hoped this would be done in (a modular piece in) sysinstall. Bruce
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