From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 16 20:28:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id UAA08836 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:28:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA08831 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:28:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id UAA02145 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:26:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id FAA10411 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 05:17:20 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id WAA16158; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 22:52:57 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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 References: <199701151947.MAA04182@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701151947.MAA04182@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jan 15, 1997 12:47:02 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)