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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 1997 22:52:57 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mount -o async on a news servre
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970116225257.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199701151947.MAA04182@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jan 15, 1997 12:47:02 -0700
References:  <Mutt.19970115003324.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701151947.MAA04182@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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As Terry Lambert wrote:

> > Yes, 99.5 % of all disks claimed by the `sd' driver are non-removable.
> > It's often convenient to remember that the number of blocks appeared
> > in the boot message (and thus, in /var/log/messages), for later
> > reference.

> The only reason "it's often convenient" is that tools like disklabel
> don't ioctl() the device to ask it for the information.

UTSL.  disklabel(8) can do this for you.  Still, people are somtimes
happy to know that they can dig up this sort of information in the
syslog.

If you're not among them, don't think everybody would instantly agree
with you.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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