From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Feb 11 20:52:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ECEB37B912 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:50:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1C4o3K80266; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:50:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:50:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200202120450.g1C4o3K80266@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Tom Rhodes Subject: Re: docs/34074: More information on disks Reply-To: Tom Rhodes Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/34074; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Tom Rhodes To: Freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: docs/34074: More information on disks Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:45:35 -0500 --------------040600070706040708090204 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello to all involved in this pr, fellow members of the doc team, anyone else who is interested [;)] Tonight, I threw an extra hard disk into my system (4.5) and ran sysinstall(8) to configure the drive. On my 4.5 system, however, the 'Partition' option is not there. At least, under the Configure option. I also want to note that, I used: Configure > Fdisk > Label although Label fed me some error messages, a simple exit and restart of sysinstall(8) and I was back into the label editor. (Handbook is incorrect about the "ignore any errors from sysinstall" because it in fact does not write the label, and spits "DEBUG: MakeDev: Unknown major/minor for devtype" during the attempted w process, and if you ignore, you will not get labels at all) This time, I obtained no error messages when doing the write operation. After a few diags, I have noticed that using the disklabel(8) utility is not required, however, you seem to be required to exit sysinstall(8) before you can use the Label editor. The point in case is not that disklabel is required, nor that if you use sysinstall(8) apperently you are required to restart before using the Label editor, but that the Handbook apperently has incorrect information and a patch is required. When I submit a patch, I will also try to accomplish a grammer cleanup on more parts of the handbook... Anyone who has noticed a difference in their use of sysinstall(8) for adding drives is requested to come forward and talk with me please. -- Tom Rhodes --------------040600070706040708090204-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message