From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 20 12:40:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA02420 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:40:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from kachina.jetcafe.org (kachina.jetcafe.org [206.117.70.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA02415 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:40:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([127.0.0.1]) by kachina.jetcafe.org (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA05598; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:36:30 -0800 Message-Id: <199603202036.MAA05598@kachina.jetcafe.org> To: J Wunsch cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:36:29 -0800 From: Dave Hayes Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch 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. ------ >>> 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?"