Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:00:05 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.8 fdisk.c Message-ID: <10454.935431205@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:55:38 MDT." <199908231755.LAA40330@harmony.village.org>
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In message <199908231755.LAA40330@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >In message <10336.935430554@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >: We shouldn't need to care about the geometry in disklabel, as long >: as we have the size right, but I suspect getting it to work is a >: matter of getting the kernel to produce a empty disklabel for >: FreeBSD slices without a disklabel on the disk. > >I think you may be right that we don't care for the disklabel, but I >do know that we do care for the mbr that fdisk writes... The value is picked up from whatever the kernel has to say, and then the MBR is (re-)initialized based on that. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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