From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 8 05:00:48 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D06016A42C; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 05:00:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from opusnet.com (mail.opusnet.com [209.210.200.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3DBE43EA3; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 04:41:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from localhost.localhost [70.98.246.232] by opusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A267C3540140; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:41:11 -0700 Received: from localhost.localhost (localhost.localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j784hJiK024667; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:43:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j784hEg0024666; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:43:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) To: Nikolas Britton References: From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:43:14 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Nikolas Britton's message of "Sun, 7 Aug 2005 20:35:38 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD handbook, 16.3.2.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 05:00:48 -0000 Nikolas Britton 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