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Date:      Sat, 3 Feb 1996 16:09:02 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: And the winner is!
Message-ID:  <199602031509.QAA11280@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199602031322.AAA15664@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 4, 96 00:22:51 am

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As Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> I still object :-).

I knew. :-)  (That's the single objection mentioned.)

>  `auto' only works for dedicated disks, and labelling
> those is easy using standard features:

Yes, but auto is easier.  It has no further ill side-effects except
stealing a single string from the virtually unlimited namespace of
disktab(5).

> The sed command and `auto' do the same fixups for the incomplete label
> on /dev/rsdX.

What about the chances to make it also work for sliced disks?

-- 
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. ;-)



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