From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 11:45:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E4DA37B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:45:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from regulus.student.UU.SE ([130.238.5.2]:57569 "HELO ertr1013.student.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:45:13 +0100 Received: (qmail 3016 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Nov 2000 19:45:03 -0000 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:45:03 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: FreeBSD Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel Message-ID: <20001120204503.B2965@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , stable@freebsd.org References: <200011201332.eAKDWTB68389@cwsys.cwsent.com> <200011201458.IAA44992@KIWI-Computer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011201458.IAA44992@KIWI-Computer.com>; from freebsd@KIWI-Computer.com on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:58:50AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:58:50AM -0600, FreeBSD wrote: > > The problem with the fdisk slices is that there is only room for 4 ... > disklabel gives us 8, no wait.. 6 if you have a swap and 5 if you don't. > > I've never been a fan of this. May I make a recommendation (flame away, > boys): redo disklabel while we're at it. it seems counter-intuitive to > me, as well as wasteful, to make partition "c" the whole disk and skip "d" > altogether. IMHO, "da0s1" should refer to the whole disk, "da0s1a" should > be the first physical partition, "da0s1b" the second partition, etc. down > to "h". This gives us 8 partitions of any type: swap or FS. This is not > ambiguous, the "swapon" would detect in the label p_fstype and if it were > not equal to FS_SWAP it wouldn't try to swap-mount it. Same goes for any > FS mount, if p_fstype != FS_BSDFFS or whatnot, it wouldn't allow mounting > of that FS. > I agree fully. Anybody know why it was done as it currently is originally? -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message