From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 15 11:25:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA17887 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 11:25:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA17882 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 11:25:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id UAA05002; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 20:25:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id UAA00221; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 20:16:39 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980315201639.23917@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 20:16:39 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Mike Smith , obrien@NUXI.com Subject: Re: *HEADS UP* Correction to previous postings. Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <199803090852.AAA14131@dingo.cdrom.com> <19980313185105.21172@nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <19980313185105.21172@nuxi.com>; from David E. O'Brien on Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 06:51:05PM -0800 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As David E. O'Brien wrote: > In light of the new mount changes, how should these instructions from > Jo"rg be updated? > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd2 bs=1k count=1 > disklabel -Brw sd2 auto > disklabel -e sd2 > newfs -d0 /dev/rsd2e > fsck /dev/sd2e > > Is the slice created by ``disklable .. auto'' always "s1"? No, ``disklabel ... auto'' doesn't create any (valid) slice. It creates a bogus 4th fdisk entry, ``since this used to be so all the time'', and since Bruce's slice code expected something like this (IIRC) in order to accept the disk as a ``classic one'', i.e. one without slices. I hope Mike's changes don't start to unsupport non-sliced disks... I know of quite a number of people who'll scream then. All this mess started with the advent of the slice code in FreeBSD 2.0.5, and with the suggestion ``If you fail to install FreeBSD because of geometry problems, then well, install a small DOS partition first.'' That's simply plain unacceptable (and looks very unprofessional, too), and the intention behind my ``dangerously dedicated'' mode sysinstall changes were simply to support the class of people who Just Don't Care about any f*****ing fdisk table at all (since they don't need it, all they need is a disklabel). Note that ``sd2e'' could have two different meanings by now: it was the partition `e' on the ``compatibility slice'' iff the disk has a valid fdisk table. Alternatively, it was the partition `e' on a disk without an fdisk table. Sorry, i haven't been following -current too close lately, just returned from a vacation. So i don't know the exact details of Mike's changes, i'm just walking through tons of email. -- 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. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message