From owner-freebsd-fs Sat Sep 30 19: 9:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E35137B503 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 19:09:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 84647 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Oct 2000 02:09:37 -0000 Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 04:09:37 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Andre Albsmeier Cc: Greg Lehey , Marc Tardif , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ccd with other filesystems Message-ID: <20001001040937.E83678@rohrbach.de> Reply-To: karsten@rohrbach.de References: <20000923133806.B78943@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000929162846.A698@schlappy.mobile.tld> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000929162846.A698@schlappy.mobile.tld>; from andre@akademie3000.de on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:28:46PM +0200 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-Sender: karsten@rohrbach.de Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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