Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:14:03 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: alane@geeksrus.net Cc: jandrese@mitre.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Are submissions to add drives to /etc/disktab welcome? Message-ID: <20020729.101403.04191026.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20020729160720.GA749@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <20020728173044.GA14766@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <3D4564A4.86BEFA38@mitre.org> <20020729160720.GA749@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
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Alan E <alane@geeksrus.net> writes:
: Is there any point in writing a disklabel onto a drive that has no
: disklabel, since the kernel can synthesize one for operational purposes?
Yes. The drive can't report the FreeBSD partitions that are on it.
Also, there's some minor tuning things that become slightly easier if
you have a label on the drive.
Warner
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