From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 13 23:13:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA25247 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 23:13:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA25209 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 23:13:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA03635; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 23:10:24 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803140710.XAA03635@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: obrien@NUXI.com cc: Bruce Evans , mike@smith.net.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *HEADS UP* Correction to previous postings. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Mar 1998 22:55:31 PST." <19980313225531.44189@nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 23:10:22 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > disklabel -Brw sd2 auto > > > > No change. > > But with the new-style mounting, this is depreciated, no? No, it's (meant to be) supported as always. > > Same as before: don't use slices when you don't have them. > > But since the change went into 2.2.6-BETA, we have no choice. I couldn't > mount root and the rest of my disks until I changed them to the new > format. (think goodness most of the partitions were created using > sysinstall!) You never had a choice, other than due to bogsity in the kernel. All that's happened is that the illusion of choice has been removed. It's no longer mandatory (or supported) to abuse the compatability slice when mounting the root filesystem. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message