From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jan 27 9:36:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 219FA37B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:36:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.2.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48A6A43EB2 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:36:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h0RHaU2w098778; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:36:31 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20030126191749.9C7E52A89E@canning.wemm.org> References: <20030126191749.9C7E52A89E@canning.wemm.org> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:36:29 -0500 To: Peter Wemm , Terry Lambert From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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