From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 21 12:12:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0578F37B4C5 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:12:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA35665; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 21:12:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: FreeBSD , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel References: <200011201458.IAA44992@KIWI-Computer.com> <14874.54687.892854.894715@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 21 Nov 2000 21:12:01 +0100 In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of "Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:05:51 -0700 (MST)" Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams writes: > > Technically, you can use c as well, but that's playing with fire. > I think 'c' is reserved to be the disk. If nothing else, it *must* > start at the beginning of the disk. Historically, yes, but I don't think the kernel cares, though (parts of) userland may care to a varying degree depending on exactly what you are trying to do. I haven't actually checked this, though. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message