Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:32:31 -0800 From: Ken Ingram <kingram@ipro.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping Message-ID: <199701101925.LAA25150@ipro.com>
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I understand slices,partitions,filesystems and mounting. In fact the histrionics I've gone through to simply add 1Gb to a newsserver has been quite instructional I will actually have something to contribute when all is said and done. Is devfs something about 'device file system' or something thereabout? And truly, what does knolwedge of partitions, &tc. have to do with making a standard. I still would need that info now if things had been easier. As it stands I got what I was looking for: a rather intense intro to 'Adding Hard Drives - Prepping' At 09:31 AM 1/10/97 +0100, J Wunsch wrote: >As Terry Lambert wrote: > >> I happen to agree with Ken here. >> >> When will devfs be standard so we can implement physical to logical >> translation layers and make this whole problem go away? > >That's only one part of the story. You still have to understand the >difference between slices, partitions, filesystems, and mounting. > >-- >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. ;-) > > --Ken ________________________________________________________________________ Ken Ingram kingram@ipro.com | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POST NO BILLS
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