Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 05:51:22 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: hackers@freebsd.org, jdl@chrome.onramp.net Subject: Re: /etc/disktab and stuff Message-ID: <199508301951.FAA19689@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> disklabel -B -r -w sd1 xxx >> newfs /dev/rsd1a >> newfs ... # any other partitions on disk >> >> where xxx is a suitable entry that you wrote and put in /etc/disktab. >Does it make sense to attempt to collect people's /etc/disktab entries >and make them more available in the (next) released /etc/disktab? No. You would need a hundred entries for each of a few hundred disks to get a reasonable coverage. Something like the following should work, but I'm less sure about it: disklabel /dev/rsd1 >/etc/label.sd1 # get sub-minimal label vi /etc/label.sd1 # fix deficiencies in label; # partition as required disklabel -R -r sd1 /etc/label.sd1 >In particular, it seems to me that many of the questions that float >down this list are fdisk/disklable related and maybe providing more >example configurations there might mitigate some of those problems. There are already examples in /etc/disktab. You can judge from the small size of the drives in this file how generally (not) useful it is to add special entries to it. Bruce
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