Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 19:07:13 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: kaleb@x.org, rkw@dataplex.net Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pilot error on my part or feedback on the 2.1 snap Message-ID: <199508300907.TAA28793@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Personally, I dislike the design decision to subvert the entire concept of >disklabeling simply to conform to MSDOS's way of doing things. But then I >was not allowed to be party to that design decision. >When I changed from 2.0 to 2.0.5, I had to go in and reformat EVERY disk >(all 20Gig) and copy things onto new partitions. It wasn't fun, but now I >am assured that I can remove any disk and use it as a bootable disk on >another system. Urk. Everything except possibly sysinstall supports the old way of doing things. That is the way documented in disklabel(8). The subversion in 2.0 (involving the 'd' partition) no longer exists. Optionally, you can have a fancier form of the subversion. Bruce
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