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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