From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 3 00:21:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA08247 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 00:21:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA08240 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 00:21:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA25412; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:21:18 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA23491; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:21:18 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id JAA08481; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:05:44 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602030805.JAA08481@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: And the winner is! To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:05:43 +0100 (MET) Cc: karl@mcs.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <700.823231940@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 1, 96 07:32:20 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > and the companion "I want to add a disk and not do a disktab > > by hand -- since I have a ZBR disk and don't KNOW the right > > That's still kind of rough, yes. Not as smooth as `disksetup' (presumably -- i've never been using it), but you've got it more convenient, without vamping a disktab entry. In -current, you could do: disklabel -Brw sdX auto disklabel -e sdX If people find it useful (and there are no further objections than the single one i've seen by now), i could also move this functionality into -stable. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)