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Date:      Sun, 1 Oct 2000 04:09:37 +0200
From:      "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
To:        Andre Albsmeier <andre@akademie3000.de>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Marc Tardif <intmktg@CAM.ORG>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ccd with other filesystems
Message-ID:  <20001001040937.E83678@rohrbach.de>
In-Reply-To: <20000929162846.A698@schlappy.mobile.tld>; from andre@akademie3000.de on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:28:46PM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009221124230.31864-100000@Gloria.CAM.ORG> <20000923133806.B78943@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000929162846.A698@schlappy.mobile.tld>

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the 'a' partition is reserved for the rootfs, as 'b' is for swap and 'c'
for the whole device.
you should use 'e' and p for payload (eg. mounted filesystems)

i dont quite know why it is still possible doing a newfs on a 'c'
partition, since the partition type is 'unused' and not '4.2BSD'. newfs
should check this and throw an error while providing an
expert-only-feature command line option to explicitly override it.
it is a bad thing[tm] to be able to wedge every single blockdev in your
system by (ab)using newfs.

/k

Andre Albsmeier(andre@akademie3000.de)@Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:28:46PM +0200:
> On Sat, 23-Sep-2000 at 13:38:06 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > I ask because I'm not sure how the word "partition" is used
> > > in the manpage, is it suppose to mean a slice (as in DOS
> > > partition) or the partition of a slice? Also, I'm intrigued
> > > by the following passage:
> > >     Note that the `raw' partitions of the disks should not be
> > >     combined.
> > 
> > I really don't understand what this is supposed to mean.
> 
> Could this mean that you should not use the 'c' partitions as ccd
> components? I, for example, use the 'a' partitions which start at
> sector 16...
> 
> 	-Andre
> 
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