From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 15 19:47:58 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA25030 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 19:47:58 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA25011 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 19:47:55 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA03129; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 19:47:38 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199506160247.TAA03129@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Labelling of slices. What happened to controlling the device? To: wilcox@math.psu.edu (Ken Wilcox) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 19:47:38 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506160235.WAA29692@napier.math.psu.edu> from "Ken Wilcox" at Jun 15, 95 10:35:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 613 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Although this is not that important of a topic for someone to worry about, I am > just curious as to why the labelling facility on the boot.flp does not allow > one > to say I want my next partition to be wd0g instead of e. I couldn't see why we should complicate the interface with it, since 99.99% of all users I know don't care a hoot... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Just that: dried leaves in boiling water ?