Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:10:17 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: "Brian A. Seklecki" <bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, Jeff Gold <jeff.gold@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diskLabelCommit fails within a sysinstall script? Message-ID: <20080220191017.GA56942@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <1203533333.10391.49.camel@soundwave.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com> References: <4bded9640802191245q20832a83j31723763ab21a940@mail.gmail.com> <20080219213254.GB47232@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <1203533333.10391.49.camel@soundwave.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com>
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:48:53PM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 16:32 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > I don't know about all you ask, but the 'c' partition should always > > be there and be set to identify the whole slice eg start at 0 and > > the size be the size of the slice. The system uses it to identify > > its a damn shame that this is still the case. defeats / undermines the > whole purpose of /dev/[as][d##][s#][a-z] > > /dev/[as][d##][s#] alone can represent entire BIOS partitions > /dev/[as][d##] alone can represent entire disk > > Not sure why we still need a 'c' slice for legacy ?! Probably. I don't really know how it gets used, but the system still seems to expect it somewhere. ////jerry > -- > Brian A. Seklecki <bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com> > Collaborative Fusion, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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