Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:36:29 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS Message-ID: <p05200f1eba5b1da8db50@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20030126191749.9C7E52A89E@canning.wemm.org> References: <20030126191749.9C7E52A89E@canning.wemm.org>
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At 11:17 AM -0800 1/26/03, Peter Wemm wrote: >Terry Lambert wrote: > > Dan Nelson wrote: > > > You should probably refer to it as your suggestion to rename > > > "last mounted on" to "volume label", since people seem to > > > think you want it to keep its original behaviour. > > >> 8-). >> >> It's string that doesn't need to be there; if the OS doesn't care >> about its contents, why should you? 8-) 8-). > >I've found it useful when recovering trashed partition info to make >sure I've found the right superblocks. Yeah, I have a version of /usr/src/tools/tools/find-sb which makes use of that last-mounted on field. Although I imagine the new field would work just as well for my purposes, assuming I had run the utility to set the new field. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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