From owner-freebsd-security Tue Mar 16 8: 6: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from freed.libdns.qc.ca (derby.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 367AA151E8 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 08:05:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spidey@libdns.qc.ca) Received: from localhost (spidey@localhost) by freed.libdns.qc.ca (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id BAA49789; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 01:59:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spidey@libdns.qc.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: freed.libdns.qc.ca: spidey owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 01:59:05 -0500 (EST) From: Spidey Reply-To: Spidey To: Andrew McNaughton Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Michael Richards <026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca>, Fernando Schapachnik , Matthew Dillon , dscheidt@enteract.com, unicorn@blackhats.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition Sites [was Re: ACLs] In-Reply-To: <199903160411.RAA00717@aniwa.sky> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > > It was a joke, and I'll never carry on such a job... I'd rather attack to > > monstrous task of resizing existing filesystems!!! Thing which I would > > obviously not be able to accomplish... :) > > I've a pretty limited understanding of the workings of the FreeBSD file > system. Neither do I.. > From that perspective it seems as though the problem mightn't > be complex, but the debugging of any work on it would be very painful. > Probably I'm wrong and it is complex. I think this is very intricate matter! Sure as hell it would be a nightmare to debug, and I _won't_ try the beta on my HD!!! :) (This should go to -hackers mailing list...) > I'm curious enough to be interested in improving my understanding of how > the filesystem works. Is there any documentation of the layout of the > file system available online, or would I have to delve into the source > to get more information. I really don't know about this, and I'm extremely curious about it myself! I made some weird manipulations on my drive like growing my FBSD slice over the Win95 one... and melting 2 BSD partitions into one, but most of the time, this required newfs'ing some data in the making (= make backups, which I don't have) Anyways, I don't think that starting the 'source code quest' could be very useful to me.. knowing not even where to start... When a man lies he murders some part of the world These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives All this I can witness any longer Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message