Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:43:14 -0700 From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD handbook, 16.3.2.2 Message-ID: <sppsspjaxp.ssp@mail.opusnet.com> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a050807183540b388c3@mail.gmail.com> (Nikolas Britton's message of "Sun, 7 Aug 2005 20:35:38 -0500") References: <ef10de9a050807183540b388c3@mail.gmail.com>
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Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> writes: > "# disklabel -Brw da1 auto" > what did the -r option do, why is it used in this example when > bsdlabel doesn't support it. It enabled the labeling of an unlabeled "disk". It's used because the handbook is still in transition from the old "disklabel". My copy has a note there saying to omit the "-r" on >=5.1. > "# disklabel -e da1 # create the `e' partition" > Why do I have to make the 'e' partition, explain why 'e' is used and > why can't use other ones like a, c, or d? An explanation of what to do > when your editing the partition table would also be nice. Yup, but if you're just complaining -- please don't, and if you're trying to get it changed, please learn the proper "channels". Problem reports are recommended or at least sending your complaint to the doc@ mailing list, though neither of those methods is very likely to get things changed much faster than it would anyway, unless you can provide some alternative text -- preferably as a "diff -u" of the SGML source files, but OK as plain text. > "# newfs -d0 /dev/da1e" > This command doesn't even work! and what about -O2 and -U options? if > it did work I would have made a UFS1 partition with no soft-updates. On 5.x? I think the default is UFS2 and you could turn on the soft updates at a later time. But I get your point. > "# mkdir -p /1" > -p? what do I need that for? Looks useless to me too. Maybe somebody never uses "mkdir" without it. Some good reading: http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/index.html
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