From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jan 26 17:21:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C91C37B401 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:21:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net (stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8981F43EB2 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:21:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0261.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.6] helo=mindspring.com) by stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18cxxG-0004oK-00; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:20:54 -0800 Message-ID: <3E348920.7EF6E966@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:19:28 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm Cc: Dan Nelson , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Alexey Dokuchaev , Gordon Tetlow , Garance A Drosihn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS References: <20030126191749.9C7E52A89E@canning.wemm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a40e9bb40a7c803848d53ebbb78c6a2fb5667c3043c0873f7e350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm wrote: > > 8-). > > > > It's string that doesn't need to be there; if the OS doesn't care > > about its contents, why should you? 8-) 8-). > > I've found it useful when recovering trashed partition info to make sure > I've found the right superblocks. I've personally used it this way as well. On the other hand, it just saves a step, and isn't necessary, if that's what you are trying to do, since you can find the same information by mounting the thing up read-only (FWIW). My own personal use is actually to get rid of fstab on an old FreeBSD 2.2 machine, which does auto-mounting on device arrival. But as people pointed out, this doesn't work so well in the case that you have multiple OS's on locally attached disks, and it doesn't work so well for SANdisk type disks. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message