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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message -- > What can you use used tampons for? Tea bags for vampires. KR433/KR11-RIPE -- http://www.webmonster.de -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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