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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:00:05 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.8 fdisk.c 
Message-ID:  <10454.935431205@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:55:38 MDT." <199908231755.LAA40330@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <199908231755.LAA40330@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:
>In message <10336.935430554@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>: We shouldn't need to care about the geometry in disklabel, as long
>: as we have the size right, but I suspect getting it to work is a
>: matter of getting the kernel to produce a empty disklabel for
>: FreeBSD slices without a disklabel on the disk.
>
>I think you may be right that we don't care for the disklabel, but I
>do know that we do care for the mbr that fdisk writes...

The value is picked up from whatever the kernel has to say, and then
the MBR is (re-)initialized based on that.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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