Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:36:29 -0800 From: Dave Hayes <dave@kachina.jetcafe.org> To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk Message-ID: <199603202036.MAA05598@kachina.jetcafe.org>
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J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes:
>As Dave Hayes wrote:
>> >Because few people work with us to make it turnkey.
>> Why is that?
>Since once you know how to setup a disk, you will suddenly feel that
>there might be more urgent things to hack upon.
Exactly.
>> would have been no flame. But the tools don't work. Fdisk doesn't
>> work reliably. Without fdisk, disklabel seems worthless.
>fdisk is far from being optimal -- but what exactly ``doesn't work
>reliably''?
I have found that I can Fdisk a disk, but subsequent disklabel will
refuse to write a label that the OS can read.
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>>> Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org <<<
Nasrudin arrived at an all-comers horse race mounted on the slowest of oxen.
Everyone laughed, an ox cannot run.
"But I have seen it, when it was only a calf, running faster than a horse.",
said Nasrudin. "So why should it not run faster, now that it is larger?"
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