From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 5 07:23:34 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA21343 for current-outgoing; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 07:23:34 -0700 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA21335 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 07:23:27 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA04160; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 15:21:23 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199504051421.PAA04160@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Proper procedure to partition/label disk now? To: bob@obiwan.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 15:21:22 +0100 (BST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Bob Willcox" at Apr 4, 95 09:57:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 801 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Bob Willcox who said > > I fear that they are going to be a concern to users as they convert > from 1.1.5 or 2.0 to 2.1. Lots of folks will think something is > broken when they see these messages. > Well, I mentioned this before and there was silence but I want to rewrite the MBR and bootblocks when 2.1 installs itself so we can fix all the bogus MBR's out there and also update the partition tables to the new standard. There's technically no reason why it can't be done but people do get very uptight when you mess with these things. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.