From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 24 12:57:59 2004 Return-Path: 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 1E3D616A4CE for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 12:57:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A605443D2D for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 12:57:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i4OJvkkZ092434 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 24 May 2004 20:57:46 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i4OJvjhR092433; Mon, 24 May 2004 20:57:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:57:45 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Jerry McAllister Message-ID: <20040524195745.GA92333@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Jerry McAllister , Bill Moran , jason-dusek@uiowa.edu, "Questions@BSD" References: <40B23B9F.1080908@potentialtech.com> <200405241925.i4OJP4l19680@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200405241925.i4OJP4l19680@clunix.cl.msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040524, clamav-milter version 0.71 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: jason-dusek@uiowa.edu cc: Bill Moran cc: "Questions@BSD" Subject: Re: Broken Disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 19:57:59 -0000 --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:24:33PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > "man disklabel" is pretty comprehensive. >=20 > Yes. But, you have to read it together with man fdisk to make any > sense of it and even then the writing is rather convoluted and confusing.= =20 > They could both use a complete systematic rewrite. I don't think I > know enough of the extra stuff (the stuff I don't usually use) to do=20 > it or I would try it. Actually, the disklabel application and man page got a complete rewrite and a change of name for 5.x. Compare and contrast: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Ddisklabel&apropos=3D0&sektio= n=3D0&manpath=3DFreeBSD+4.9-stable&format=3Dhtml http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dbsdlabel&apropos=3D0&sektion= =3D0&manpath=3DFreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=3Dhtml Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAslO5iD657aJF7eIRArmzAJ4rddf407grBOg6jKr6XM5i67hEtQCgl1Qc v/DC0VZU1gxkoiJHEYoI2Fw= =Wehq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4--