From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 9 18:53:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C36CD37B417 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:53:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fBA2rHk42937; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:53:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:53:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200112100253.fBA2rHk42937@apollo.backplane.com> To: Peter Wemm Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) References: <20011210023828.15C963810@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :BTW#2: I dont think there is any reason why we cant use the 'd' partition :anymore, is there? There does not seem to be any leftover magic gunk that We can use the 'd' partition (and have been able to use it for many years). sysinstall is rather annoying in that regard. -Matt :maps this onto the 'dos' fdisk partition anywhere that I can find. We :may have had a magic 'd' for FreeBSD-1.x or 2.0, but I'm quite sure it :died well before 2.1.0. : :Cheers, :-Peter :-- :Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message