From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 3 07:34:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA05435 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 07:34:22 -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 HAA05420 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 07:34:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA03145 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 16:34:12 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA26605 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 16:34:11 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id QAA11280 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 16:09:03 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602031509.QAA11280@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: And the winner is! To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 16:09:02 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602031322.AAA15664@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 4, 96 00:22:51 am 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 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. ;-)