From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 21 14:56:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 677F437B764 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:56:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA24664; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:56:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA26291; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:55:56 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003212255.PAA26291@harmony.village.org> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:17:58 CST." <4.3.2.20000321160347.00ad9b20@207.227.119.2> References: <4.3.2.20000321160347.00ad9b20@207.227.119.2> <38D50DBC.88FA8E4D@glue.umd.edu> <38D3AB72.366D851D@glue.umd.edu> <200003152159.OAA89926@harmony.village.org> <38D03E64.3D17FC34@glue.umd.edu> <200003190433.VAA04863@harmony.village.org> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:55:56 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <4.3.2.20000321160347.00ad9b20@207.227.119.2> "Jeffrey J. Mountin" writes: : Are you saying that da0a is (almost) functionally equivalent to da0s3a if : slice 3 is the first FBSD slice. Thought they were for "dangerously : dedicated" partitions. No. That's not correct. While they are used in dangerously (and stupidly) dedicated mode, they can be used at any time. I still have some mount points on my -current machine that refer to sd1c because I've been too lazy to update them. : Sounds similar to da0 being the same as da0s1 for disklabel. Hmmm... Not quite. Those aren't really the same. : >It is a shame that you can't use them to mount / on / in an : >emergency. The consistancy checks won't let you. : : Agreed. The few times I've needed to use a fixit floppy or CD... : Let's just say it isn't fun. 8-/ But if you can mount it as /mnt, then you can usually fix it. :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message