Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:32:52 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/bsdlabel bsdlabel.c Message-ID: <20030828193252.314E92A8D4@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20030828191408.65D172A7EA@canning.wemm.org>
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Peter Wemm wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > "Poul-Henning Kamp" wrote: > > > In message <200308280815.12638.wes@softweyr.com>, Wes Peters writes: > > > > > > >If I understand this correctly, this is a nice little change. You're > > > >trying to discourage people from just using the 'c' partition *as a > > > >filesystem*, right? > > > > > > yes. > > > > I'd like to see this go further and have the magic 'c' partition go away. > > eg: instead of using ad0c or ad0s1c, use ad0 or ad0s1 as the 'whole > > partition'. Having ad0c and ad0 as pseudo aliases for each other is a > > waste of a disklabel partition IMHO. > > Before this turns into another 'thread from hell', let me clarify that. Oh crap. I forgot about the f*cked up braindamage in the bootblocks about this. Sigh. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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