From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 31 14:39:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C849F37B4C5; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:39:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamlet.nectar.com (hamlet.nectar.com [10.0.1.102]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2984E192A7; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:39:54 -0600 (CST) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by hamlet.nectar.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id e9VMdsd19032; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:39:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:39:54 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: John Baldwin , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep Message-ID: <20001031163953.B18974@hamlet.nectar.com> References: <14675.973021175@critter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14675.973021175@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:39:35PM +0100 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:39:35PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > The magic "Hmm, I'll try sticking /dev in front" DWIM code is > bad IMO. I always had the impression that the utilities that took a bare name like da0s1 did so in part to save the user from figuring out whether /dev/da0s1 or /dev/rda0s1 was appropriate. That distinction is gone now. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message