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Date:      Sun, 7 Sep 1997 14:41:31 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: conf/4461: IOMega Zip disk entry for disktab
Message-ID:  <19970907144131.VF59013@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199709071220.WAA04832@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Sep 7, 1997 22:20:32 %2B1000
References:  <199709071220.WAA04832@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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As Bruce Evans wrote:

> > What's wrong with ``disklabel -Brw sdX auto''?  I figure it should
> 
> 1. `auto' shouldn't exist.  Use
>    `disklabel /dev/rsdX >foo; $EDITOR foo; disklabel -BrR sdX foo'
>    instead.

That's too hard unless you put it into a script that ships by default.
disklabel ... auto doesn't do much more, actually.  It has a precedent
case in DEC Unix.

> 2. It has the same problems as the committed disktab entry:
> a) it only works for "Dangerously Dedicated" disks.  Note that the

I don't think so.  disklabel ... auto might even work for sliced disks
(but i'm not much experienced with sliced disks myself).

-- 
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. ;-)



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