From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 4 04:21:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA27783 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 04:21:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA27768 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 04:21:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA27024 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 13:21:23 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA08153 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 13:21:22 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id MAA00617 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 12:39:09 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602041139.MAA00617@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: And the winner is! To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 12:39:09 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602041055.VAA26451@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 4, 96 09:55:59 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: (disklabel auto) > >What about the chances to make it also work for sliced disks? > > No chance, since if disklabel works for sliced unlabeled disks then > `auto' will go away :-). Perhaps it should work for unlabelled BSD > slices (those with partition type 0xA5). Yes, that's what it would be interesting for. I don't intend to ``disklabel auto'' a Linux slice. ;-) -- 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. ;-)